I was listening to Ross Stevenson bang on about this article about how apparently we're all apparently going to be killed in the ever crowded skies this morning, when the segment producer apparently decided it was a good idea to tee up a brief interview with the vice-president of the Australian and International Pilots Association for his take on the matter.
(As an aside, the bloke in question was on a mobile in the back seat of a cab in London at the time, and the time delay on the call was damn near zero - I wouldn't have even noticed it if the announcer had not mentioned it. Bloody impressive.)
Rossco made the point that one "near miss" had been 7.4 miles - which he compared to parking his car in Collins St and nearly getting hit by a car in Balwyn, and was generally taking the piss.
The AIPA bloke made the reply of the morning -
"What you've got to understand is those limits are set by time, not distance. Those aircraft are traveling at 8 miles a minute. That breach means they were less than 28 seconds from a collision at a little under a combined 1,000 miles an hour. You still feeling safe?"
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