 | Near miss over London?| OFF-Topic / Misc. Discuss Near miss over London? in the Current forums; From the looks of it, those two planes are way to close to each other.
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01-30-2006, 10:48 PM
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#1 | | Senior Member
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| Near miss over London?
From the looks of it, those two planes are way to close to each other. http://www.sky.com/skynews/picture_g...0748-1,00.html
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01-30-2006, 11:03 PM
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#2 | | IP/Mech THE GREAT GAZOO
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Country:  | 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....
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01-31-2006, 04:07 AM
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Country:  | 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
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01-31-2006, 05:20 AM
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| Yep, funny how the optics works... | |
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02-04-2006, 07:36 AM
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02-04-2006, 07:38 AM
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#6 | | Master of Ewes
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02-04-2006, 01:05 PM
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02-05-2006, 11:03 AM
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#8 | | Der Crewchief
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Country: | 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.
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02-08-2006, 02:24 AM
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#9 | | Master of Ewes
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02-08-2006, 02:30 AM
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02-10-2006, 01:16 PM
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02-10-2006, 06:51 PM
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02-10-2006, 07:03 PM
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02-11-2006, 10:07 AM
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