I have been 1000ft directly above an A380 and it does look pretty close.
What the above video shows is how accurate lateral tracking is nowadays.
I heard that airlines flying over Africa fly say 2nm right of the track.
This is more about the size of the aircraft than absolute altitude difference. 1000 feet is about 2-3 wingspan on a large jet, therefore the relative distance is small. For a SEP or a similar sized fighter, the relative distance would be 10-20 wing spans. Another way to look at it is the relative speed is small on a large jet, while it is proportionally larger on a small jet. Two fighters converging with the same relative distance as those jets in the video would look as if they flew 5-10 times faster.
1000 feet is 1000 feet no matter what though.
Peter wrote:
I have been 1000ft directly above an A380 and it does look pretty close.What the above video shows is how accurate lateral tracking is nowadays.
I heard that airlines flying over Africa fly say 2nm right of the track.
Standard when outside radar coverage.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_lateral_offset_procedure
Sebastian_G wrote:
did release for a second a kind of liquid forming a tine white flare
Probably just starting the chemtrails :-)
