I find it amazing that planes don’t crash into each other when taxiing in/out of gates. How do they do that? It’s not like the pilots have a backview mirror/window through which they can look behind the plane.
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there is a ground control tower that communicates with every plane on the radio.
the guy in the tower has a map of every plane that is at the airport, and they are responsible for moving the planes. That’s why you often get stuck waiting to take off – the tower is moving planes around, slowly and safely.
Planes do NOT MOVE until the tower instructs them to. If they do, the pilot can lose their license. They DO NOT MOVE. Period.
So that’s how it’s done – one or two people are responsible, they know where everyone is, and no one moves without being told to move.
Don’t think of pilots as individual actors – think of them as pieces on a chessboard, that move when the player picks them up and moves them. Then it wil lmake sense.
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