This picture illustrates how AI Traffic can use Telepathy to communicate much faster than with speech:-
Each of these breaking aircraft has communicated with the tower and received back the joining instructions for the VFR circuit on the runway in use...None of them rolled the bank on until these joining instructions were received. You can see from the picture that the interval on the "Break" was very small (about a second). If I had been tuned to the tower radio frequency then this picture would not have been possible because the calls would have had to have been spoken and I would have heard every word...In that case the interval between breaking aircraft would have been very much longer (about three or four times as long) and by the time the fourth aircraft broke the others would be very widely spread indeed.
The same thing can be illustrated on the ground when a formation of four, calls for taxy clearance on the ground frequency...If I am tuned to ground frequency and listen to the transmissions (they are quite long with full taxy instructions to the runway in use) then the interval between the taxying aircraft is quite long (maybe a couple of hundred yards). However, if I am not tuned to the Ground frequency then the communications are telepathic and the aircraft will taxy in close line astern. I have the user aircraft (Hama's Austin Ambulance) tuned to Ground on COM1 and Tower on COM2...Thus if I switch to COM2 before they call then they will taxy out in close formation...But if I switch to COM1 and hear their calls then the spacing will be very much wider.
DaveB and Nigel H-J...I have finished the AFCAD files for Belfast Xtreme and Edinburgh Xtreme now and will be zipping the Update to 208 Squadron for you. Saved flights will be included and you can see this effect for yourself :flying:
A very interesting find, Peter. Thanks very much for sharing it with us. This only confirms that the AI controllers and pilots are talking about my horrible Concorde landings behind my back.
Crikey! If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is there to hear it, does it make a sound? What do you think, grasshopper?
You've done a fantastic job with that formation, Peter. Amazing pictures. It's disturbing to know that they work better without interference - it makes you wonder what they get up to when the PC is turned off!
This only confirms that the AI controllers and pilots are talking about my horrible Concorde landings behind my back. 
