"Frode Berg" wrote in message
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OK.

I will not speak my mind on this forum if this is what happens.

Thanks to all the insightful posts by all you other people!

I just needed to put some statistics into perspective.
After all, I witnessed a mid air right before starting my PPL.

However, tha last week I've flown a few times, and haven't thought much
about it anymore.

I guess mr Ol Shy here is flying around his farm in the middle of nowhere
at 300 feet in his ultralight.

I only have 250 hours total, and have had 3 close encounters. Not really
"near misses" apart from one of them, but they were still to me
uncomfortably close, so you claiming 23.000 hours with none....?
Hmmm...makes you wonder...

Frode


Nope. Old Shy, like I did, started flying about fifty years ago when you
learned to fly by looking out the windows. As a result looking out the
windows becomes a habit when flying. As a result you can see the other
traffic and "near misses" just don't happen very darned often. I have also
been flying about fifty some odd years all over the country includeing some
years flying charters in the NYC area ( yes, it was busy there forty years
ago also ) . In that time I have had two near misses. Both were high
performance turboprops climbing up beneath me on my same course where I had
a hard time seeing them and they were so busy fiddleing with radios and
instruments that neither of them was paying any attention to where they were
going until they looked up and saw my belly filling their windshield.

The other common spot for midairs is short final. You get a high wing on a
straight in approach and a low wing in a tight steep pattern and the low
wing guy can land on top of the high winger. Be especially vigilant around
airports. That is where airplanes often are! :-) Avoid straight in
approachs and always roll level for a short spell on base and look to the
incoming courseline. Be sure to look high and low because you never know
what kind of a glideslope they might be using.

It has worked well for me.

Highflyer
Highflight Aviation Services
Pinckneyville Airport ( PJY )