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Dennis Donovan

(18,770 posts) Mon May 18, 2020, 03:10 PM May 2020

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See and avoid... until you (almost) don't 👀

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See and avoid... until you (almost) don't 👀 (Original Post) Dennis Donovan May 2020 OP

Yikes! The Velveteen Ocelot May 2020 #1

"Cessna seven hotel foxtrot, Chicago Center... umm, you got that traffic on your two o'clock yet?" Dennis Donovan May 2020 #3

There was time to say OH SHIT!!! Cirque du So-What May 2020 #2

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,836 posts)

1. Yikes!

Reply to Dennis Donovan (Original post)

Mon May 18, 2020, 03:14 PM

May 2020

As a flight instructor a few years ago I had a couple of close calls like that. You learn to look for shadows on the ground.

Dennis Donovan

(18,770 posts)

3. "Cessna seven hotel foxtrot, Chicago Center... umm, you got that traffic on your two o'clock yet?"

Reply to The Velveteen Ocelot (Reply #1)

Mon May 18, 2020, 03:43 PM

May 2020

At the end, the PIC banked to the left - was he gonna chase them?

Cirque du So-What

(25,972 posts)

2. There was time to say OH SHIT!!!

Reply to Dennis Donovan (Original post)

Mon May 18, 2020, 03:15 PM

May 2020

if you didn't stutter.

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