JamesG
Well-Known Member
Had to fly back out to Nuevo México for a funeral this weekend, and while sitting in the cattle car looking out the port hole, wishing (again) I had invested in a PPL, I started the old habit of scanning for other traffic, and noticed... a lot of it. On each leg, I saw multiple other aircraft, usually other airliners within a couple of nM of us, some of which the pilots obviously had to maneuver to increase separation.
While it was cool to fly in formation with another plane and have to dodge other ones zipping by, it got me thinking... did they tighten the commercial air corridors or is it that now that everything follows the same GPS guided autopilot flight plans, AC are "bunching up" tighter than they used to?
While it was cool to fly in formation with another plane and have to dodge other ones zipping by, it got me thinking... did they tighten the commercial air corridors or is it that now that everything follows the same GPS guided autopilot flight plans, AC are "bunching up" tighter than they used to?
