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Flight Radar Nuggets

Post by kiwiflieger » Sun Jun 19, 2016 7:36 am

The name says it all. Post here anything interesting you've seen on ADS-B live tracking websites, be it strange, amusing, alarming, coincidental or whatever. Doesn't have to be your own picture.

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About 300m of vertical separation? No thanks... :?
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Post by Turbofan » Sun Jun 19, 2016 6:53 pm

^Actually that's perfectly normal. The ICAO standard is minimum 1,000 ft of vertical separation, which these two aircraft are. Happens all the time. :)
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Re: Flight Radar Nuggets

Post by kiwiflieger » Sun Jun 19, 2016 7:15 pm

Yes, but right over top of each other? In the middle of the Tasman Sea? I can't help but think of what would happen if one of their altimeters was faulty... but then again I'm probably just being paranoid. :roll:
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Post by Turbofan » Sun Jun 19, 2016 8:04 pm

Yes, right on top of each other is fine too. And the scenario you're thinking of is why basically all modern airliners have TCAS.
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Re: Flight Radar Nuggets

Post by Zack » Mon Jun 20, 2016 9:10 am

Also one aircrafts starting airport is the other's destination, so im guessing that it is not too far from that airport.
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Re: Flight Radar Nuggets

Post by Turbofan » Mon Jun 20, 2016 10:55 pm

Zack wrote:Also one aircrafts starting airport is the other's destination, so im guessing that it is not too far from that airport.
Not to be picky but at 39,000 feet, I doubt that aircraft's destination is anywhere near close. ;) If I were to surmise I'd say this is just another routine mid-air crossing.

Anyway, didn't mean to distract from the topic. Nice screenshots so far!
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Re: Flight Radar Nuggets

Post by kiwiflieger » Tue Jun 21, 2016 4:03 am

Zack wrote:Also one aircrafts starting airport is the other's destination, so im guessing that it is not too far from that airport.
The 737-800 is flying from CHC (Christchurch) to BNE (Brisbane); the 787-800 from CAN (Guangzhou) to CHC.

But we digress.
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