Near miss over London?

[syscom3]

From the looks of it, those two planes are way to close to each other.

http://www.sky.com/skynews/picture_gallery/picture_gallery/0,,70141-1210748-1,00.html

 

[FLYBOYJ]

I seen that on another site - its a hoax, they were 2000 feet apart, the legal ATC seperation in the airspece they were flying in....

 

[Gnomey]

Yeap that was what was said on the BBC, no breach of safety was brought up.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4660644.stm

 

[Pisis]

Yep, funny how the optics works...

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

Visual Illusions - It is a big part of our flight training.

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

really? what kinda stuff do they teach you?

 

[pbfoot]

its called parallax

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

They teach us all the Visual Illusions like Motion Parallax, etc. They also teach us ways to combat those visual illusions so that we dont fly into things and what not.

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

any tips, you know, for when i'm off flying next

 

[plan_D]

I have one. Put your arms over your face, 'cos the last time someone kicked you up into the air you managed to splatter your face on the floor ... and although it made you look better ... it was quite cruel, and we had to clean up the mess.

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

Okay then...

 

[FLYBOYJ]

D - how many beers did you have when you came up with that?!?

 

[plan_D]

I ... don't know.

 

[FLYBOYJ]

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

One to many!