Microsoft Flight Simulator Handbook
by Jonathan M. Stern
CHAPTER 20
Understanding ATC
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Pilot's Log I had a harrowing experience with a student, but it had nothing do to with his performance. I was in the right seat instructing him, and he was wearing a hood that restricted his vision to the instruments. When he asked a question about the instrument approach chart, I looked down at it and counted to three. When I looked back up, I saw nothing but the wheels of another plane in the windscreen. I didn't have time to panic. I only had enough time to instinctively shove the control yoke forward and dive underneath the other airplane. To this day, I have no idea what type of airplane it was or whether its pilot ever saw us. |
In the earliest days of powered flight in the United States, the big sky worked to prevent mid-air collisions. The big sky still prevents many mid-air collisions, but the number of airplanes flying by the 1950s made the big sky a far less reliable separator of airplanes.
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