My experience of looking at thisis sort of thinking that since I used to fly small planes like Cessna 152s and Cessna 172s especially it makes me realize just how crowded the skies are everywhere near any large city.
The way they avoid collisions with small aircraft which often are just VFR (visual flight rules) instead of IFR (Instrument Flight Rules required of all passenger planes not experiencing a complete emergency at the time in the air) it makes me think that there are a whole lot of planes big and small fast and slow up there and everywhere in between which means collisions between VFR (Small planes) and IFR aircraft (Passenger planes) should be just expected more than it happens. However, somehow we have a way to keep our small planes from being too near passenger planes jet wash which would literally rip the wings off a small plane behind larger passenger planes. It also explains the several close calls I had in a passenger plane when VFR small plane pilots had no idea what they were doing and almost caused passenger planes to crash in takeoff or landing patterns to larger passenger plane airports here in the U.S.
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