Caution... Wake turbulence!

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MD-11
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Caution... Wake turbulence!

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Imagine the wake caused by these small babies! 8O
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Emirates Airbus A380-800
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Antonov An-225 "Mriya" reg UR-82060
This plane has a MTOW of 630 tons.
Makes a 747 look small :?
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Wow love that Mriya (Dream in Russish) Bart.

THanks for drawing this uge bird.

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MD-11 wrote:Imagine the wake caused by these small babies! 8O
Makes a 747 look small :?
There would be a lot of turbulence from them allright :o , what sort of follow-on delay would there be, anybody got any ideas ? :?
Thank you very much MD11, your drawings are very good :D :D :D

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Very good drawings.

Does anyone know time seperation between several types of popular planes before take off? (i.e time an a A318 is told to wait after a B747 took off?)

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i guess that depends on the air traffic around....at JFK the time between each arrival/dep is around 30 sec...(correct me if i am wrong)

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Captain wrote:Very good drawings.

Does anyone know time seperation between several types of popular planes before take off? (i.e time an a A318 is told to wait after a B747 took off?)

Captain
2 minutes seperation time.

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