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Public Transportation and Smart Growth

Surya Gayatri

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7. Have you ever had a real hair-raiser, DemoTex...

Reply to DemoTex (Reply #3)

Tue Dec 4, 2012, 08:44 AM

Dec 2012

where you could feel the "breath" of another plane on your nose or tail? What they so euphemistically call a "near-miss"?

At such busy hubs as LHR, it must happen more than the authorities care to make public.

I give major props to these pilots--it has to take nerves of steel to fly with such razor-thin safety margins.

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VERY cool n/t trocar Dec 2012 #2

Landing LHR or LAX, you had best be ON the assigned speed, exactly. DemoTex Dec 2012 #3

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