First officer of Boeing-787 Dreamliner in Avianca Airlines, Second in command in commercial flights under Colombian, FAA and EASA regulations. Business Administrator.
The coolness of #RVSM Airspace and perfection of navigational systems of modern aircrafts. Context: While flying in Santamaria Oceanic Airspace, leaving Lisboa FIR (Flight Information Region), we where at FL390 (39.000ft = 11.900 km), another airplane flew just 1.000ft above us (300m). This is perfectly fine and RVSM airspace objective is precisely that: more airplanes flying together under safe procedures, everything monitored by air traffic controllers, pilots and navigational systems such as #GPS and #IRS. In any case, pilots are very well trained to do #TCAS evasive manuevers (Traffic colission avoidance system).
