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Does airplanes have turn signals?

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Does airplanes have turn signals?

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  1. no need for them


  2. The problem is: To see turn signals, airplanes would have to fly dangerously close to each other. Beside that, when an aircraft is turning, it banks, and that is quite visible from any aircraft behind it. What would be more interesting, though, is to have a signal that shows if the aircraft is climbing or descending because up in the air, we are not separated by "roads" but by altitude. As long as you stay at the altitude given by the airspace controller, you're fine.

  3. Not only do we not have turn signals, aircraft technology hasn't even advance enough to give us power windows like you have in your car. We still have to manually crank the window open like your gandpa had to while driving to hand signal a turn. Besides, some of us are getting old and you wouldn't want have to look at our blinker that we left on after a lane change like the little old ladies with blue hair driving 70's era Buicks do.

  4. No but they do have a horn of sorts, to call the ground crew.

  5. nooo, they done. However on a lot of land use they can be installed

  6. no, the bigger plane has the right of way. so if your in a small plane look out!!!!

  7. No and no horn either.  Maybe they need them.  

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  8. no.

  9. No, they have no need for them. Xx

  10. actually no.

  11. ....No.

  12. Of course, they have bright orange indicators on the tips of the wings, so when the plane banks the opposite one flashes - it's the other way round from cars etc.  Otherwise no-one would notice - if the plane was banking left, the left wing would dip and may not be that visible.  Also there are break lights on the tail, but as these are often masked by exhaust from the jet engines (where planes have one on the fuselage), their use is not mandatory.

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