Sentence examples for separated by five miles from inspiring English sources

"A plane is a plane is a plane, and you have to keep them separated by five miles," Mr. Smiley said, referring to the standard separation for planes in cruise flight.

As a result, controllers must keep planes flying at the same altitude separated by five miles.

Air centers use radar that is less precise, requiring that planes be kept separated by five miles.

The islands are separated by three miles of blue sea.

Normally, such planes can be safely separated by two miles.

Rules require that planes be separated by four miles on takeoff, and indications so far are that the distance between the two planes was greater than that.

"We're only separated by ninety miles," she said as she sat on a curb nursing her feet, worn from standing for the hours-long show.

They are separated by two miles, a highway and fear and suspicion so deep that many people in one community would not dare set foot in the other.

They were separated by three hundred miles, but there was the telephone, there was E-mail, and for the first month or so there were Saturday nights in a motel in Danbury, but that was a haul, it really was, and they both agreed that they should focus on their course work and cut back to every second or maybe third week.

Normally, safety dictates that flights be separated by five nautical miles or 2,000 feet vertically.

— The northwestern Minnesota towns of Stephen and Argyle, populations 708 and 656 respectively, are separated by nine flat miles of soybean and wheat.