reply to post by comm12
comm12, you SHOULD try to video these things...
Do they flash individually? That is, does each vehicle have a defined flash that is consistent? Or, do they just glow, and then change intensity at
random?
This is why a good video would be useful, eyewitness accounts are subject to communication errors, nobody's fault, it's the nature of language.
I'd like to provide an example of eyewitness problems, even if 30 people (all pilots) watch the same video. We had this one year, at my airline,
during annual re-current training GroundSchool.
We are told to focus on people throwing balls back and forth, some balls are white, and some are black. This video lasts about 7 or 8 minutes...
We are told to keep a count of how many black balls and how many white balls we see during the video, we will try to be the winner with the right
answer at the end. Thing is, just near the end, a man in a monkey suit walks thru the frame, in the background...he stops, jumps and down a few
times...beats his chest...then walks out of frame.
The video over, and every competitive pilot announces his final answer, how many white and black balls...each KNOWING that he/she is correct.
But out of a room of 30 or so professional pilots, maybe one or two ever saw the man in the monkey suit!! Sometimes NONE of them saw him!
I have to say, when this was presented to me, I had seen it on a documentary, so I knew beforehand what was to come...and in that room, I was the only
one to see the 'monkey'...one out of 30 pilots, and if I hadn't seen the doc previously, I would have been fooled too, and I told them that.
Perhaps I've left the topic, but I think it is relevant, at least as it pertains to what people see, and how they try to describe it afterwards. The
most earnest believer/viewer can still fail to convey EXACTLY what he/she wishes to convey...even videos may require multiple viewings, and
discussions, to reach a consensus.