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Post by Dave Homewood on Jan 30, 2006 17:05:11 GMT 12
On Prime TV News they just showed some photos taken by a pro photographer who was covering a football match in London. Apparently the whole crowd looked up when they heard low airliners, two of, metres away from collision right above them! And they showed photos to prove it. Very, very close, but didn't touch. Scary stuff.
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Post by phil82 on Jan 30, 2006 19:36:13 GMT 12
Not really Dave. Authoritative comment [Air Traffic] on another site [pprune], is of the opinion that the photo was taken with a very long lens, and the actual vertical separation was the legal requirement of 1000'. The distortion of the lens makes them look closer than they are. www.pprune.org/forums/showthread.php?t=208778Once again, speculative and ill-informed media have blown an incident out of nothing. The last time I flew into Heathrow, from Rome,[about three years ago] on a BA 757, you could look out the windows on either side on the way to Heathrow and see literally dozens of aircraft both vertically and horizontally separated. It pays not to look if you're at all nervous. In a hotel on the Heathrow flightpath, from 0600 you see aircraft every 60 seconds!
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jan 30, 2006 20:06:25 GMT 12
I guess reading the reasoned argument on PPrune, as opposed to the brief snippet shown on the news, there could well be the regulatory distance. The photo is an optical illusion. Or should I say photos, they showed at least three. One of the photos is here news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4660644.stmThe professional pilots' opinions are here www.pprune.org/forums/showthread.php?t=208758Thanks for pointing that out - it looked seriously scary on the hyped up news, but studying the photo it's not so bad. Amazing how you can trick audiences into believing something when you show them something else, eh.
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Post by JEden on Mar 7, 2006 15:39:14 GMT 12
At least it's a great way to disprove the saying "The camera never lies" ;D Lense distortion is a great way to make some photos seem more dramatic than they really are - like this...
James
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