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    Who Loves To Fly?

    I think everyone should join the Mile High Club!! Here's why...oh, btw, I'm typing without my reading glasses...plus my eyes are itchy...I have an 80 lb pit bull laying beside me on my bed...allergies, so please don't be bothered by my spelling errors

    ok, here's why: My wife and I were out for a leisure walk, holding hands, chatting. Suddenly she excitedly says to me "Mugsammy! (Lol) look up in the shy!"

    So I look up. What do I see...two very large airplanes flying in opposite directions. One North, one south...ON THE FRIGGIN SAME FLIGHT PATH!! I scan the sky...it's totally clear but for these two jumbos! Both airplanes still ascending!

    After only a few seconds I say HOLY FUCK!" I had visions of seeing a huge fireball in the sky. Then thinking of running for cover as debris and whatever else rained down from the sky!

    The planes flew directly past each other....one directly below the other!

    Now, I could care less what anybody says....with the entire sky available for only two airplanes...and from the ground it looked SOOOOOOO CLOSE!! I would venture to say that in jumbo airplane terms that a fraction out of whack by either one could have been disastrous!

    It was frickin SCAREY!!! I'm wondering should I phone Dept Of Aviation Safety (Transportation) and explain what we had seen.

    I was so close to a helicopter crash at one time that I seen the flash of the explosion in my rear view, I felt the vibration in my car. Seven people died. This time I had visions of hundreds of people dying, a terrifying experience!

    Mile high club...oh yeah...it might be your last flight!
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    I hate flying !!

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    • #3
      I generally dislike planes due to the whole fear of crashing thing. I'm terrible at amusement parks.

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      • #4
        Originally posted by VanessaBell View Post
        I generally dislike planes due to the whole fear of crashing thing. I'm terrible at amusement parks.
        I actually love to fly!! And I've got enought accumulated miles to go around the world several times. I've enjoyed (YIKES!) some very turbulent and bumpy flights.

        But this really was nuts...an illusion from the ground, perhaps. But I will say...I could see both of these airplanes very clearly, it wasn't like they were dots in the sky or seeing only the white streams tailing behind. Both airplanes were very visible...ang huge!

        I don't like amusement park rides either. I started to sweat 10 minutes after getting off the roller coaster in WEM (West Edm Mall.) Scariest rides ever for me...a roller coaster in TO many years ago called Mouse Trap, the other called Drop Of Doom where your seat is drawn up about 10 floors...inched out to the edge...till there is no more edge...then...WHAAAAAAAAA!!!! To the bottom!

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        • #5
          Originally posted by Mugsammy View Post
          "Mugsammy! (Lol) look up in the shy!"
          Funny...I say the same thing but I think it means something totally different when I say it....
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          • #6
            Originally posted by Shyla Wild View Post
            Funny...I say the same thing but I think it means something totally different when I say it....
            LOL! Yes, I'm sure the meaning is totally different.

            I think yours would be more like "look up into the eye!" Lmao!

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            • #7
              The likely-hood of a mid air collision between 2 commercial passengers jets would be close to nil.

              Modern day commuter planes are equipment with - TCAS which stands for Traffic Collision Avoidance System. It's essentially a large radar attached to a plane that scans 360 degrees for other air traffic and alerts the pilot of any potential conflicts and issues an RA; resolution advisory. A RA tells a pilot to climb or descent and will advise on a correct course of action.

              http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic...oidance_system

              So yeah....it was defiantly your eyes playing tricks with you on the ground.

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              • #8
                Originally posted by cocacola1984 View Post
                The likely-hood of a mid air collision between 2 commercial passengers jets would be close to nil.

                Modern day commuter planes are equipment with - TCAS which stands for Traffic Collision Avoidance System. It's essentially a large radar attached to a plane that scans 360 degrees for other air traffic and alerts the pilot of any potential conflicts and issues an RA; resolution advisory. A RA tells a pilot to climb or descent and will advise on a correct course of action.

                http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic...oidance_system

                So yeah....it was defiantly your eyes playing tricks with you on the ground.
                Thank you. Although I am familiar with that...you have to see it to believe it. It really was quite scary! next time I fly I will have to remember what you said...if I think of the alternative....I may have to drink a lot of scotch on the flight!

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                • #9
                  Aircraft typically maintain 3000 feet of separation. What you thought you saw were two aircraft flying at different flight levels. Aircraft flying in opposite directions will be given even and odd flight levels by ATC... like 35,000 and 38,000 feet.

                  Modern day aircraft are all equipped with NextGen Radar technology known as ADS-B and by 2020 all aircraft will be required to have ADS-B.


                  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDLFHdq540g

                  Also check out http://flightradar24.com the planes in yellow are ADS-B tracking.

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                  • #10
                    This beats Flight Tracker

                    Originally posted by Admin007 View Post
                    Aircraft typically maintain 3000 feet of separation. What you thought you saw were two aircraft flying at different flight levels. Aircraft flying in opposite directions will be given even and odd flight levels by ATC... like 35,000 and 38,000 feet.

                    Modern day aircraft are all equipped with NextGen Radar technology known as ADS-B and by 2020 all aircraft will be required to have ADS-B.

                    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDLFHdq540g

                    Also check out http://flightradar24.com the planes in yellow are ADS-B tracking.
                    Thanks Admin007 for the link to flightradar24! My new toy!

                    I realize this comment is off-topic but I live under a busy cross-canada flight path plus another from N. Europe to various Midwest US ports and being a very curious person, on days when climatic conditions are just right, I look up at the many contrails above me and wonder where all these flight are coming from and going to. Now I can just check flightradar24 to see who‘s leaving their mark on my sky!

                    Very interesting, and while watching a particular aircraft it is even possible to see it changing direction from time to time, e.g. I just watched a departing local AC flight on the runway @ 0 altitude, then take off heading in the wrong direction (governed by runway and wind direction of course) then as it gained altitude it's marker could be seen to visibly swivel around bit by bit until it was headed South to Toronto!

                    Clicking on a particular aircraft marker brings up details about the airline, aircraft type, altitude, direction, horizontal and vertical speed etc. which are shown in a panel on the left. Far better than the info Flight Tracker provides.

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