Why is one airplane flying directly behind another?

Hi folks,
i often look through my window and watch the airplanes during a sunset. It looks particularly beautiful then.
Often an airplane flies by with another airplane of the same size flying behind it at the same speed and distance.
I often see things like this and I would like to know why this can happen. Isn’t that far too dangerous?

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palzbu
14 years ago

These aircraft are supply aircraft for the Nato troops in the Balkans. Always 2, in the evening about 18,00 to 19,00. The lands in Ramstein in the Palatinate. Every evening for more than 10 years. They belong together, so the flight is one after another.

Glueckwunsch49
14 years ago

the rear aircraft saves kerosene because it follows in the air turbulences of the front flying. the same make migratory birds when they fly in V formation.

and dangerous this is only if they do not keep a certain distance and that is too close to the front.

blackcat007
14 years ago

which can be seen from below as a distance as very small, but in reality is a great distance.

malysh1990
14 years ago

you mean from the far away that they are so close together, but in reality there are several thousand meters that these two aircraft are apart:) they will certainly never collide.

luckytess
14 years ago

This only looks like – in reality the planes fly in different lanes / heights. You have to imagine this as a road network that exists for planes. And all this is regulated by air traffic control so that nothing happens.

knuspakeksii
14 years ago

you must also note that although they look as if they were flying one behind the other, in really no few kilometers are different in height ^^

XGustav
14 years ago

This is an optical tamper. In truth, these planes have different altitudes.

Dreamlife
14 years ago

airlines?
in the sky the pilots also have something like a road (on their sensor/radar) and they have to fly like this is predetermined. so the aircraft do not fly into each other

mikael
14 years ago

Go to the ophthalmologist, you can’t see spatially. Although, the height is badly appreciated, the planes are at different heights.

mikael
14 years ago
Reply to  Saaasu

Well, if you can see very well, you must have another, strong, weak point. Or, do you really think the air traffic controllers are stupid and let planes fly on top of each other at the same level? Someone must be stupid, you can’t be, you can look good.

mikael
14 years ago

You don’t have to let this tell you, but still, I think if you want to know something, you should make as precise details as possible and I’m sorry if you can’t distinguish a military machine from a passenger machine, but, “imagine” they fly behind each other, then you have something with your eyes.

mikael
14 years ago

Also, get used to formulating the questions exactly as possible, don’t worry about it again, on the one hand, formulating questions inaccurately and on the other, you want to get accurate answers. If you want accurate answers, ask exactly. Is that so difficult to understand?

mikael
14 years ago

Oh, I thought you understood what I wrote to you? But I repeat it again in German, maybe you are willing to understand. Air traffic controllers will not let two planes fly at the same level, but I’m reading straight, you mean military aircraft? Then don’t write that you mean a passenger plane, who can express himself clearly and think is then clearly in the advantage 😉