RAF Tornado near miss 12.01.11

[moosedecumanus]

Why can you not like it? nobody died.:)

[baxio3rod]

Having been trained as an RAF Fast Jet pilot in the 70s flying Hawker Hunters, I can appreciate the problems encountered by my successors in today's crowded and shrinking training airspace. Low-level flying is still the most demanding part of a military pilot's job and, arguably, the most important. TCAS is all very well for avoiding the collisions in normal circumstances and with slower moving civilian aircraft but, in a head-on with 1,000 knots closing speed it takes quick reactions to dodge.

[alphaprawns]

@baxio3rod Yup, frankly it's amazing they can do stuff like this at all. So if you were training in the 70s, that would have been you guys gearing up for a potential fight against the Russians right?

[revolutions88]

What a way too go

[IronHarper]

Considering red arrows can be feet apart I reckon 150 feet is a fair bit :P

[graingermouse]

@IronHarper

but the red arrows expect to be that close to each other, im guessing they travelled much further than 150ft in the time it took the pilots brains to realise they were that close

[alanmichaellincoln]

Doesn't look very near to me! Not sure that's Scotland down there!

[jagara1]

That's not a near miss it is a near hit!

Also surely these aircraft have TACAS, oh I forgot they are British built...

[nvstewart]

@jagara1 Its called TCAS (Traffic Collision Avoidance System) BTW, being British has nothing to do with it. These are OLD aircraft, probably older than you. Not every civilian aircraft have TCAS even. So dont try and blame it on the British. It was clearly stated that one aircraft was in the area 7 minutes earlier than it should of been. It is pilot error, not aircraft error.

[iameskay]

Wait what? Two fighter pilot crews failed to spot each other? You would think these guys would be pretty good at spotting planes...

[eatthisvr6]

@iameskay they arnt fighters

[TheStoner60]

I think the Tornado looks like a very sturdy plane.Engineering at at its best.

[Viruner]

@TheStoner60 I think he looks like a rock...

[MyHeners1]

I think I saw my house

[Factnotfictionpeople]

So much for all that fancy radar! lol

[nvstewart]

@Factnotfictionpeople Did you know they do low flying exercises for a reason? To fly below the radar? Ever heard of that? Sure enough they have their own radar systems, but they dont have to turn them on. Maybe they were flying a combat sortie, which you normally turn off the radar for that to lower the radar signature of the aircraft.

[happyidiottalk]

Presumably then, they dont use their radar all the time?

[xTomcatsForeverVF84x]

Tell this to the Blue Angels or the Thunderbirds....they'd laugh

[aspiringdrummer17]

@xTomcatsForeverVF84x What makes you think they haven't had similar incidents?

[LfcGoddardENGCJG]

@xTomcatsForeverVF84x Blue Angels and Thunderbirds are display teams, this vid is about two aircraft that should not of been anywhere near each other. stop trying to be a smart arse because the Blue Angels or the Thunderbirds are no where near as good as the Red Arrows.

[AtomicCheese92]

@xTomcatsForeverVF84x this wasnt an airshow, Red Arrows are alot better than and american show team. iv seen all of them numerous times.

[stratagie1]

@xTomcatsForeverVF84x Tell this to the typhoons that intercept Russian bears on the daily and fly nice close and personal with em

[MinorHeadstorm]

good snappy report

[CODnCHIPS4U]

omfg! 150ft thats like 80 meters omg.... wow... its really not that bad tbh....

i cant elive they are cutting all the pilots and pilots currently in training!!!

[alex471996]

@CODnCHIPS4U

150ft, consider they can fly over 150ft per second

[Lindholmer5k]

@CODnCHIPS4U dude, if they were going 500MPH, 150ft is nothing. consider that 500mph equals 733.333333 feet per second

[TOTALAIRPLANEFREAK96]

@Lindholmer5k At 600 mph, a mile goes by in six seconds, and that's not even half the speed it can do.

[tabray1]

silver medal

[xxxxgerbilxxxx]

win