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yeah the wake problem is a real killer. it isnt able to fly into the highest traffic airports because of the wake…and that kills other planes landing soon after not to mention the effect on the environment within its radius (for some reason 10mi sticks in my head not 2)
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I looked it up. It got a rating of 6/8/10 for heavy/medium/light, as compared to a 4/5/6 for the 747.
For those not into commercial aviation, basically that means that when an A380 takes off or lands you have to keep an 8 nautical mile spacing behind it and a smaller 737 or the 737 may get knocked right out of the sky. Remember how Goose died in Top Gun when they went through the jet wash? Yeah, same idea but now you have a couple hundred people, no parachutes, and a big plane full of explosive fuel above a densely populated city. That’s why they take wake turbulance studies so seriously. 3 miles makes a big difference when at any moment the US airspace looks like this: