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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Its absolute in no way amazing, its actually fairly simple.
First, pilots are highly trained. They’ve done this a lot of times. You probably never have, but to them this is normal. Taxiing has a lot of rules and procedues, much like driving a car on the road, you stay in your lane, follow traffic signs and stop lights and such
Second, they are being told where to go and when, there are people they are talking to on the radio that know when they are arriving, and what gate they need to go to for every plane. And plans are made to ensure they get there. But that said, there often aren’t that many planes taxiing around at the same time, its not much to de-conflcit.
Lastly, I mean, if theres an issue, you just stop, no seriously. you just stop make sure things are OK, then keep going
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