This morning while I was on my coffee break, I spotted a contrail from an airliner and I realized there were actually two airliners not too far from each other. The one ahead seemed to me an Airbus A380 and not too far from behind to its right, I couldn’t make out what kind of aircraft it was except it had sharply swept wings and with a t-tail. What was out of the ordinary is that they were maybe just under a mile apart. Isn’t it dangerous?!
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By: Arabella-Cox - 23rd June 2014 at 05:23
It is very difficult to judge distance from the ground like this. For example, the aircraft could have been 1500 feet apart vertically (is that the interval in a stack?) and it would be impossible to see from the ground.
By: fulcrum-aholic - 21st June 2014 at 14:25
It wasn’t a bizjet. It was somewhat small or mid size commercial plane…
By: J Boyle - 21st June 2014 at 10:16
Yes, wake turbulence can be dangerous.
But it’s difficult to judge distance, especially when one aircraft is a A380…it’s so big it throws off the scale.
How much smaller was the other aircraft…was it a Lear or a MD-80? What I’m trying to ask is how do you know it wasn’t a Lear at a much lower altitude or a MD-80 at a higher altitude?
If it was a bizjet and THAT close, it could have been used for air to air photography.
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June 20, 2014 at 6:30 pm