Monday, May 14, 2018

I wonder if flying that close, you encounter turbulence?


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  1. Not as far below him as they're flying.

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  2. Not that close. Wingtip vortices tend to sink and disperse laterally.
    John h.

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  3. Not the second guy. Maybe the third or fourth, unless they stay low.

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  4. There is turbulence back there. The bigger the hunk of aluminum hurtling through the sky the bigger the turbulence. Think of the turbulence streaming back and a little down from the exhaust. In minimum interval takeoffs, when you're trailing somebody it's good to make a bid to one side or the other. You can also go under or over. Don't be directly behind. Look at some of the movie clips from B-52 MITOs. There's a couple of scary looking effects from the turbulence.

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  5. with that separation, probably not too much. what there is, is noise and lots of it

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