Near miss video

[red750]

Link to a video from a PA28 in the UK which barely avoided colliding with a trike.

 

https://au.news.yahoo.com/a/29443872/terrifying-mid-air-near-miss-caught-on-camera/

 

Read the comments in the item.

 

 

[Happyflyer]

Link to a video from a PA28 in the UK which barely avoided colliding with a trike.https://au.news.yahoo.com/a/29443872/terrifying-mid-air-near-miss-caught-on-camera/

 

Read the comments in the item.

13000ft? I think not. The micro light may have been climbing.

 

 

[Marty_d]

Extra zero. PA28 pilot can clearly be heard giving his position as 1,400 feet before the event.

 

 

[dazza 38]

Typical dumb ass media, you cannot expect them to get all information correct.

 

 

[Deskpilot]

IMO, both pilots made mistakes. A, the trike pilot was obviously not keeping a good lookout. He must have been able to see the plane a lot sooner than the plane saw him. B, the plane pilot rolled his craft left, thus raising his right wing closer to the trike which was also on his right side. Roll right or just dive would surely have given more separation.

 

Yea, I know. Easier said with hind-sight.

 

 

[eightyknots]

I wonder why people continue to call these events a "near miss"?

 

A better description, surely, is a "Near Hit"?

 

 

[facthunter]

Near miss is the accepted terminology. If the other craft is coming straight at you, both turn right. In that situation it would be counter intuitive to turn towards where the plane is. IF you examine it again, watch how the target trike moves in the screen.. It's tending to move upwards,in the screen and the correct evasive action is to move in the opposite direction which is pitch down. I would suggest the trike was slightly above the other aircraft, rather than climbing, but either way, how it moves in the screen dictates what to do. As the comment says it's almost too late to do much to achieve an effect. If the target is stationary in the window you will collide Nev

 

 

[aro]

I wonder why people continue to call these events a "near miss"?A better description, surely, is a "Near Hit"?

I wonder why people confuse "near" and "nearly". "Near" describes the miss i.e. it was a miss that was near, not "nearly missed". Likewise a near neighbor is not someone who is nearly a neighbor.

 

 

[dazza 38]

I wonder why people confuse "near" and "nearly". "Near" describes the miss i.e. it was a miss that was near, not "nearly missed". Likewise a near neighbor is not someone who is nearly a neighbor.

Well bugger me, I never thought of it that way. Great post aro. I always thought near hit was more discriptive but your explanation explains things more clearly.

 

 

[facthunter]

Near can be four things one of which is an adjective. Nearly is an adverb. It's a miss as it wasn't a hit. (nouns) An adjective is a describing word ie of many possibles this miss was a near one. Nev

 

 

[Nightmare]

I can't help but think that slight regular course changes by both pilots could have made them a bit more visible to each other, and of course regular radio broadcasts of their positions, and I know the PA-28 pilot was doing that. But that may not have been effective, I guess, as not all aircraft are equipped with radios. If I was the ultralight pilot without a radio equipped, I'd be making some inquiries to get one fitted ASAP, right after changing my underpants.