This is an earlier experiment. Read the amendments below before treating its findings as current.
The question
The design proposed giving each class of craft its own height band. This test asked what happens if the classes are mixed.
What was tested
Small, cargo and heavy craft flew together in one height band.
What was found then
Mixing went badly. The closest approach fell to 0.22 of the required spacing (below 1 means a safety bubble was entered), and there were 2,152 close calls. The conclusion drawn at the time was that classes must be separated by height.
What changed
Nothing.
Numbers and source references
- 0.22
- closest approach as a share of the standardresults/results.json e7_mixed.min_sep_ratio
- 2,152
- breaches in the mixed-class runresults/results.json e7_mixed.total_violations