Saturday, February 24, 2007
Silly Games
Football Crazy
Boys
Girls
Boys and Girls These pictures do not ALL represent romantic attachments!
Fancy Dress party on the final night
And so - the bus home - Pássaro Livre is Freebird - Lynyrd Skynyrd, anyone?
Exhausted punters on the bus
While in Belo Horizonte, before the retreat, and afterwards for lunch, Andrew stayed with our friends Hildemar and Marise, and their four boys Hildemar Neto, Paulo, Mateus and Daniel. It was VERY good to be with them. Enough said.
On arrival after after the retreat the boys immediately besieged Vinícius and Isabela's car, in which I had arrrived. "Tem um morcego na piscina!" - "There is a bat by the pool." We all trooped to see - and here it is. Young, small, and probably with some kind of problem.
Self-portrait talking with Daniel in Confins airport, Belo Horizonte.
Another flying thing, on the way home - a Gol 737-800, alongside us, a little higher, for many miles. Our Airbus (we had just been told) was at 38 000 ft. I have never seen this before. Is it right??? Recent events in Brazil make you nervous!
# posted by Andrew and Cora @ 10:54:00 am 
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Should be. If you were at 38000', then RVSM applies - 1000' separation of traffic travelling in different directions - so the other aircraft would have been at 40000' - which a B737-800 can certainly do. And you could be vertically above/below one another 2000' apart...
There were other issues in the case of the midair collision - I think at least one of the aircraft was operating without a transponder (which is a component in the collision avoidance system) and was also not where it was supposed to be.
Don't be unnecessarily suspicious of standards in Brazil: there was also a midair collision over Switzerland, remember!
There were other issues in the case of the midair collision - I think at least one of the aircraft was operating without a transponder (which is a component in the collision avoidance system) and was also not where it was supposed to be.
Don't be unnecessarily suspicious of standards in Brazil: there was also a midair collision over Switzerland, remember!
So is that a 2000 ft height difference then? Obviously the photo is on max zoom - the plane is not close!
We all got VERY used to indepth discussions of 1000ft steps when the whole sad GOL crash business was being debated.
I just found it fascinating to be effectively alongside another jet for so long - in a stack for Heathrow we often see other planes, even much closer, but in a very different context. 38000 ft over Minas Gerais (a state bigger than France) is different.
Love to all!
We all got VERY used to indepth discussions of 1000ft steps when the whole sad GOL crash business was being debated.
I just found it fascinating to be effectively alongside another jet for so long - in a stack for Heathrow we often see other planes, even much closer, but in a very different context. 38000 ft over Minas Gerais (a state bigger than France) is different.
Love to all!
Should be 2000'. The thing about airways is that, with improbably large amounts of three-dimensional space, aircraft are channeled for safety down ten-mile wide corridors, at discrete 1000' intervals, and with the rise of GPS, the absolute deviation from the centre of the corridors is probably a few tens of metres .... All of the northbound traffic between London and Scotland effectively follows one airway.
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