By: wysiwyg - 14th March 2003 at 19:20
RVSM (reduced vertical separation minima – 1000′ vertical separation) has been in operation on the North Atlantic tracks for years. European airspace became RVSM at the beginning of last year and helps us immeasurable by allowing us to fly much closer to the aircrafts optimum level for its current weight (amongst other benefits). It exists between FL290 and FL410.
By the way there is only 1 western jet whose systems are not capable of being upgraded to RVSM standards and yes, it’s the 146!!!
By: keltic - 14th March 2003 at 17:37
He´s got a digital Canon with a good zoom.
By: EGNM - 14th March 2003 at 16:19
as from last year minimum seperation levels were reduced to 1,000ft from 2,000ft within certain area of airspace, between FL280 and FL460 i think it was – theoretically doubling capacity – and yes when your airbourne they do look extreamly close!
By: T5 - 14th March 2003 at 15:05
It’ll be zoom, aircraft wouldn’t be allowed to fly quite so close, surely.
By: MapleLeaf_330 - 14th March 2003 at 14:06
Great photo! Are they actually that close, or did the photographer use a zoom?
By: KabirT - 14th March 2003 at 07:00
beautiful!!
By: EGNM - 14th March 2003 at 00:11
kwality!!
By: T5 - 13th March 2003 at 21:19
Lovely photograph.
I saw a similiar air-to-air type shot on Airliners.net last month and the reason I say type is because it wasn’t actually an air-to-air shot but looked much like one – if you understand what I mean :confused:
By: A330Crazy - 13th March 2003 at 20:13
Great pic Keltic. One taken by your friend again? I see this one made it to Airliners.net just as his others did. Great work! 🙂
By: Saab 2000 - 13th March 2003 at 20:01
Yes, brilliant pictute. I love those sort of views always reminds me of when you are staring out of the aircraft window and see a plane whizzing past you…superb.
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