Flight Patterns
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That was AMAZING MAN!!!!!!!! I really liked how you could see the increase of trafic from east to west as time went on. Also interesting to see all the blank space arround las vegas and then all the trafic coming into and leaving from the city. Great find :joe:
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It was alright. We better hope that no terrorisers get ahold of this otherwise they might start taking drugs and dancing. 
Note the North Atlantic portion of the screen.
Typically, traffic only goes west to east for the early morning originators out of the eastern seaboard on their way to Europe.
Traffic inbound from Europe flies in much later in the day, all the way up to the redeye arrivals into our east coast.
That's how they separate traffic in this region of the world; specific time frames go east, times other than this go west.
There is no radar coverage over much of the North Atlantic. The airplanes fly tightly specified geographic tracks and altitudes, and they maintain a mach number as well as using GPS and datalink to tell air traffic controllers where they are.
If you aren't flying within the specified directional time frame, you can't fly on those navigation tracks or altitudes. You have to fly above or below them, or on a geographically separate course.
The system works well. No mid-air collisions over the Atlantic, but lots of traffic density.
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Typically, traffic only goes west to east for the early morning originators out of the eastern seaboard on their way to Europe.
Traffic inbound from Europe flies in much later in the day, all the way up to the redeye arrivals into our east coast.
That's how they separate traffic in this region of the world; specific time frames go east, times other than this go west.
There is no radar coverage over much of the North Atlantic. The airplanes fly tightly specified geographic tracks and altitudes, and they maintain a mach number as well as using GPS and datalink to tell air traffic controllers where they are.
If you aren't flying within the specified directional time frame, you can't fly on those navigation tracks or altitudes. You have to fly above or below them, or on a geographically separate course.
The system works well. No mid-air collisions over the Atlantic, but lots of traffic density.
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It is amazing. I flew west once over the pond, in the weather, not able to see a thing on one of the N. Atlantic tracks. When I broke out of the weather, directly above me (1,000' vertical separation) was a 747, and stacked 1,000' directly above him was an MD-11. GPS is incredible.boofish2 said:
Very cool. I can't believe the volume of traffic and yet the minimal amount of collisions -- unbelievable!!
Seeing big airliners that close, with all of us doing about 500 mph+, was a sight to behold. Wish I'd had a camera.
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