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Originally Posted by seamonster
After watching that video I don't want to here shit about understaffed air traffic controller's...That was one of the worst ****ing video's I've ever seen in my life. How do you not see a commercial jet, lit up like a football stadium, barreling down at your position?
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Happens all the time. especially in the dark. And how well lit up the aircraft is dependent on the angle at which you're viewing it (head-on and you're looking into a giant landing light, but from the side or behind it's just recog/nav/logo lights). And the CRJ was necessarily moving at 200+, while the helo was moving at some fraction of that. Depending on the actual angle of intercept, altitude difference, etc. there may not have been a lot of angular change/movement across the field of view, which would make spotting each other more difficult.
Bottom line, it's almost impossible to really understand the spatial relationships between these aircraft from just the video. We need the radar tape at the very least. Another video from a different angle would also be helpful.