The Flick -- A term used by air traffic controllers to describe a mental model representing the current and future positions of air traffic in a section of airspace. Controllers visualize the paths of multiple aircraft in terms of position, altitude, trajectory and speed. Controllers also refer to this as "having the picture." But the picture moves -- like a movie -- hence the term “the flick.”
Saturday, September 25, 2010
What’s That Sound?
There’s not much I can add.
NTSB INVESTIGATING NEAR MIDAIR COLLISION OVER MINNEAPOLIS INVOLVING COMMERCIAL JETLINER AND SMALL CARGO AIRCRAFT
”The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating a near midair collision between a commercial jetliner and a small cargo aircraft that came within an estimated 50 to 100 feet of colliding near the Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport (MSP).”
”Neither pilot saw the other aircraft because they were in the clouds, although the captain of the US Airways flight reported hearing the Beech 99 pass nearby.”
Y’all be careful out there.
Don Brown
September 25, 2010
Labels:
air traffic control,
FAA,
MSP,
Near Mid Air Collision,
NMAC,
NTSB,
US Airways
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