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On a flight I had another plane flying and then landing parallel to mine (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Happens a lot at Charlotte-Douglas; the field has three parallel runways.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I remember seeing this happening while taking off from Charlotte. ATC probably does this on purpose to make estimating turns easier/more predictable rather than trying to time staggered takeoffs and approaches amongst each other. That place must have a fuckton of holding and departing traffic at all hours…