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Cruising at 37,000 feet-is this TOO CLOSE?
9/20/2014
| Myself
Posted on 09/20/2014 3:25:22 PM PDT by rlmorel
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I gasped and my heart jumped. I looked around and back, nobody seemed to have even noticed. My wife and the guy in the seat next to her looked at me like I was crazy!
The only time I have seen an airplane that close while in an airliner was as I came in to land and passed over or by it as it was taxiing off to the side. I could clearly make out each window, and if I had not been so startled, I think I could have actually seen people inside if I had tried.
And the fact that we were going 180 degrees in the opposite direction with a likely closing speed of nearly 1200 mph, makes it even more disconcerting.
We had just entered turbulence, and everyone had to return to their seats and buckle in, so I wonder if planes were being re-routed to avoid the turbulence, and perhaps they knew exactly what they were doing, but...I simply cannot imagine two airliners head on sharing that same space at that altitude going head on to each other.
Are there any Freeper airline pilots out there who can shed any light on this?
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posted on
09/20/2014 3:25:22 PM PDT
by
rlmorel
To: rlmorel
Did you see this on the wing?
To: rlmorel
Did you crash?
Then no problem.
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda
Oh, good God.
Funny, but no. It was a few hundred yards (maybe 200-300) off our port side and several hundred feet below us.
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posted on
09/20/2014 3:29:30 PM PDT
by
rlmorel
(The Media's Principles: Conflict must exist. Doesn't exist? Create it. Exists? Exacerbate it.)
To: rlmorel
I gasped and my heart jumped. I looked around and back, nobody seemed to have even noticed. My wife and the guy in the seat next to her looked at me like I was crazy!
Whoa! Bro, what an opening paragraph to a potential book...........
My heart flutters with the excitement you have just instilled.....
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posted on
09/20/2014 3:31:43 PM PDT
by
Hot Tabasco
(Don't harsh my buzz bro......)
To: rlmorel
the file you meant to display in your message... cant be found according to Dropboz
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posted on
09/20/2014 3:31:48 PM PDT
by
MeshugeMikey
(Please RESIGN Mr. President Its the RIGHT thing to do_RETIRE THE REGIME!)
To: F15Eagle
Thanks for the explanation. From your handle, you probably understand way better than me how fast things happen head on at that closing speed, and if it isn’t a big deal, then...well...I guess it ain’t.
But I had never seen that with my own eyes before.
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posted on
09/20/2014 3:32:03 PM PDT
by
rlmorel
(The Media's Principles: Conflict must exist. Doesn't exist? Create it. Exists? Exacerbate it.)
To: rlmorel
I've seen this.
Airliners fly in 'routes', and different directions are separated, if memory serves me correctly, by 1000 feet.
Look straight down on your next flight, and don't blink much.
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posted on
09/20/2014 3:32:38 PM PDT
by
Nepeta
To: MeshugeMikey
sorry Its displaying now....
it didnt immediately display so i asked my browser to open the file in another window. that is when the error message appeared
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posted on
09/20/2014 3:32:44 PM PDT
by
MeshugeMikey
(Please RESIGN Mr. President Its the RIGHT thing to do_RETIRE THE REGIME!)
To: rlmorel
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posted on
09/20/2014 3:35:29 PM PDT
by
Dallas59
To: MeshugeMikey
LOL...DropBox is having trouble synching...it reminds me of that comedy routine someone did one time about griping about slow Internet service while flying in a pressurized tube at 37,000 feet at 550 mph...
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posted on
09/20/2014 3:36:05 PM PDT
by
rlmorel
(The Media's Principles: Conflict must exist. Doesn't exist? Create it. Exists? Exacerbate it.)
To: rlmorel
It USED TO BE, that if any approaching aircraft was larger than your thumbnail, it was too stinking close.
Nowadays, with all the stories that we, the public, are ‘allowed’ to know about, I have no idea.
I just hope that you did NOT need a laundry change, once you landed!
To: Dallas59
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posted on
09/20/2014 3:37:23 PM PDT
by
rlmorel
(The Media's Principles: Conflict must exist. Doesn't exist? Create it. Exists? Exacerbate it.)
To: MeshugeMikey
I refreshed and got this, which explains everything:
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posted on
09/20/2014 3:37:32 PM PDT
by
freedumb2003
(AGW "Scientific method:" Draw your lines first, then plot your points)
To: rlmorel
It was a few hundred yards (maybe 200-300) off our port side and several hundred feet below us.Distances are difficult to judge in the air. 300 yards is nearly the 1000' vertical separation, so you're pretty good at this.
To: rlmorel
The other aircraft should have been 2000 feet above or below your aircraft.
(IIRC - it's been 32years since I was Pilot-In-Command (PIC) and never at 37,000 feet, Flight Level (FL) 370)
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posted on
09/20/2014 3:38:19 PM PDT
by
BwanaNdege
("Gang Green and the Government Staff Infection " - Glen Morgan, Freedom Foundation.)
To: freedumb2003
Danger Danger,,, Pilot Out Of Control!!
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posted on
09/20/2014 3:38:33 PM PDT
by
MeshugeMikey
(Please RESIGN Mr. President Its the RIGHT thing to do_RETIRE THE REGIME!)
To: rlmorel
He was at 35,000. This author is one big drama queen!
To: rlmorel
RELAX...we have everything under control
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posted on
09/20/2014 3:39:30 PM PDT
by
JPG
("So sue me". OK, we will.)
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