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Old May 16, 2019, 6:00 am
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Originally Posted by Pascoe
Fully admit I am being a terrible pedant here but unless BA are introducing a fleet of F35s in addition to the A350 later this year, surely it's still just two dimensional. I can't recall any flight I was on getting airborne until at least a little further from the gate ;-)
Well, to point out one obvious factor, when something pulls out of A1, it may think it has a clear path, at that precise moment in time it has a clear path, but what has also to be taken into account is that in 30 seconds time A3 will also pull out. So time / forward anticipation is the third dimension here. Bit like chess.
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