<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Tango:
A 1/4 mile seems like a lot of distance but when you realize how fast space is eaten up with two planes flying torwads each other you have to wonder.</font>
You don't have to wonder...you can figure it out!
If you and the small plane are converging head-on 1/4 mile is nothing--i.e., if you're traveling 400 mph on the Horizon plane and the small plane is going 100 mph--the two planes are traveling towards each other at 500 mph or over 8 miles per minute. The aircraft will collide in just over 7 seconds. Yikes, ehe?
Finally! I've figured out how to use all of that stuff I learned in 8th grade math..."if train A leaves Denver at 4:40 and train B leaves Sacramento at 4:45..."
Though I never did too well, then so don't look TOO closely at the #s now.
