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rickair7777 09-18-2020 07:53 PM
Originally Posted by Peabody17 (Post 3131728)
The C-17 has digital SKE that you couple to the A/P and A/T, so you can fly formation “hands-off”. I’m sure it won’t take much for the civilians to figure it out too...
It can be done, just not cheap. Mil is more risk tolerant, by orders of magnitude, so probably can't just install mil hardware, it would need to be clean-sheet.

Excargodog 09-18-2020 09:36 PM
So, unbriefed formation flight with someone you’ve never met?

How could that possibly go wrong?

I’d rather go MARSA with the Italian Air Force.

https://youtu.be/MG1f3ukUxYI

hydrostream 09-18-2020 10:10 PM
The only way this will work is with circular runways.

TransWorld 09-19-2020 06:38 PM
Originally Posted by hydrostream (Post 3131784)
The only way this will work is with circular runways.
I’ve seen them. I am impressed with less than 22 seconds to change tires and fuel. Now, if they can figure out how to get 150 PAX and bags off and another 150 back on in under a minute, we could join back in without losing more than a couple of laps.

AirBear 09-19-2020 08:57 PM
Originally Posted by Peabody17 (Post 3131728)
The C-17 has digital SKE that you couple to the A/P and A/T, so you can fly formation “hands-off”. I’m sure it won’t take much for the civilians to figure it out too...
Flying SKE formation was like a freaking 2 hour long hand flown ILS. It's nice the C-17's can couple it, we didn't have that option in C-130E models.

da42pilot 10-17-2020 01:37 PM
I can see this for drones or the military. That’s about it.


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