altitude separation

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Instead, I would have had to use altitude separation, which is legal non-radar separation.

ONE IN OR ONE OUT: The flexibility of flying IFR into a non-towered airport can sometimes seem at odds with ATCs separation requirements

Joint Publication (JP) 3-09.3, Close Air Support, describes four ways to deconflict air: lateral separation, altitude separation, altitude and lateral separation, and time separation, which requires the most detailed coordination.

Training the next generation of leaders on fire support: five things every commander should know about fires

Lead finally kissed me off and we took altitude separation.

Hypoxic in IMC

In any case, as per FAR Part 91.123(a), "When a pilot is uncertain of an ATC clearance, that pilot shall immediately request clarification from ATC." The second phase of the flight along airway UZ6, according to the flight plan, implied a change in altitude for a reason, since UZ6 is a two-way airway where altitude separation is mandatory.

The Brazilian midair

In the Tower or Approach control, working two airplanes or 10, the tools were (in no particular order): preplan, use course divergence when altitude separation isn't available, prioritize your transmissions and manage the frequency.

ATC's flex plan: traffic to and around major airports follows preordained procedures. Yet deviations from the norm won't quicken the pulse of an experienced controller. Here's why

I said we would remain at 500 feet until feet dry, thus maintaining altitude separation.

Left to left

The need for altitude separation is what precludes controllers from just saying, "Deviations approved." Saying the latter by itself gives the pilot permission to deviate both laterally and vertically--not good if I have other aircraft above or below.

Navigating the nasties: when you're asking ATC for deviations around weather, it's useful to know where they can easily bend and where it'll take some negotiation and planning

The squadron had grown comfortable with the 2,000-foot altitude separation between Baja and the tanker with his dozen chicks in tow; I hadn't yet reached that comfort level.

The bright lights of Vegas

To protect airspace around each flight, altitude separation is used in case an aircraft makes a surprise deviation around a cell.

ATC doesn't have to fly; a controller's job is separating aircraft, and he doesn't have to be a pilot to do that well. Flying the airplane is your problem

Lead should have detached Dash-2 and -3, providing altitude separation at the rendezvous point.

Clean up, join up, and shut up

Telling ATC you're unable to climb or descend more than 500 feet per minute is an FYI so the controller doesn't rely on a 500 fpm climb or descent rate when applying altitude separation with another airplane.

Report this: we report all the time when we make a quick readback, but there are all those reports that we never do, until we stop painting on radar

From the TCAS, we determined that the lead Hornet would fly right under our airplane, with little or no altitude separation, if we both maintained our current flight paths.