Comments by "miraculixx" (@miraculixxs) on "Taking Off" channel.

Rounded how? E.g. what will 120, 150, 180 show as?
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@gloverll thanks for the details! I get that, just trying to understand how precise this is. Say you see two aircraft reported as fl 002 and fl 003 with a precision of +-25 you could end up thinking there is a small margin where in fact both are at 275ft (unless both are rounded to 003). It seems utterly unsafe to have less than say 500ft margin, if understand correctly a helo can easily pass 200ft within seconds.
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@raymort3 @gloverll thank you! Very insightful, much appreciate your patience and effort.
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Depends on your viewing angle.
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Especially since the hello made several course corrections after their acclaimed ID of the CRJ, and would probably have lost sight anyway while the CRJ was on its setup route to rw33. Once the CRJ turned onto its final approach the helo was positioned at ~90 degress orthogonal for a short time and so would only see the plane from the side. I am familiar with sailing boats, and it is literally impossible to tell the dimensions, nor the distance, of a vessel passing right in front of you at night, even when you see the lights. One can easily think the lights are further away only to realize very late that the other vessel is maybe just 100ft away. Makes for scary moments. On a sailing boat speeds are much slower than on this helo ofc so much less time to react - or virtually none.
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