Simviation Forum - Traffic Spacing

Aug 14^th, 2006 at 9:53am

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Go to maps.google.co.uk and click on [Satellite], then take a look at Runway 09L at Heathrow Airport.

Does that look safe?

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Reply #1 - Aug 14^th, 2006 at 10:13am

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Your link doesn't work.

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Reply #2 - Aug 14^th, 2006 at 10:15am

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The link doesn't work. But I copy and pasted it, found what he was looking at at it is very closely packed.

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Reply #3 - Aug 14^th, 2006 at 10:22am

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Are you sure it's not the same plane?

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Reply #4 - Aug 14^th, 2006 at 10:31am

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Possible I suppose. I don't know how satellites take their pictures.

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Reply #5 - Aug 14^th, 2006 at 12:06pm

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well they both look like a320s, and they both dont have any bold colouring visible from above. I would say based on that it could be the same plane with the pictures taken in quick succession, maybe somewhere between these two planes is the seam between two pictures.

With me not being a real pilot (yet) I cannot 100% rely on this being realistinc, but on the sim, you will get permission to taxi into position and hold as soon as the guy ahead of you has been given clearence to take off. If the pilot of the second jet was in a hurry, he may have done what I do in the sim and stick his nose to the APU exhaust of the first jet and get lined up right away while the other guy is still blasting down the runway.

Who knows!... well not me.

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Reply #6 - Aug 14^th, 2006 at 12:10pm

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That reminds me, If anyone has google earth, take a look at Bournemouth Intl Airport in the UK (find bournemouth, south coast of england, a couple of miles west of the Isle of Wight. The airport is on the north side of the town.) Aaaanyway, I digress, look at the plane lined up on one of the runways.... Is it just me or is that an A380!!!!!! Surely that runway isnt long enough for that beast to get aloft from!

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Reply #7 - Aug 14^th, 2006 at 12:11pm

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well they both look like a320s, and they both dont have any bold colouring visible from above. I would say based on that it could be the same plane with the pictures taken in quick succession, maybe somewhere between these two planes is the seam between two pictures.

I saw 3 planes.

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Reply #8 - Aug 14^th, 2006 at 12:17pm

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Its the same plane, the pictures are taken in stages,

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Reply #9 - Aug 14^th, 2006 at 12:20pm

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I saw 3 planes.

With another one coming into land behind those already on the runway.

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Reply #10 - Aug 14^th, 2006 at 12:24pm

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They are definately the same plane. They have the same markings and you can see where the 3 joins of the picture are (the runway bends a bit)

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Reply #11 - Aug 14^th, 2006 at 12:31pm

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I saw 3 planes.

Ah apologies, as I zoomed in I saw the first two on the runway (from left to right) and figured that was it!

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Reply #12 - Aug 14^th, 2006 at 12:50pm

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As Craig says it's all the same plane. It's the same phenomenon that means that two aircraft are nose to nose on one of the taxyways...

As for Bournmouth, it's a 747 SP by the looks of it...

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