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Weird aircraft track on flightaware.

  • 24-03-2012 11:48pm
    #1
    ScouseMouse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,070 ✭✭✭


    Noticed this this evening and am a bit puzzled. Any ideas if its dodgy data or maybe the pilots fell asleep (joke :D)

    Looks a bit weird.

    Cheers folks.


Comments

  • #2
    Tenger
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 10,005 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tenger


    Flightaware is not always 100%. And it is showing 9 hours flight time which is not possible with the track shown on the map......so someone is wrong in this!


  • #3
    eyeinthesky
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 39 ✭eyeinthesky


    Nothing unusual as the tracks were all going high yesterday.


  • #4
    ScouseMouse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,070 ✭✭✭ScouseMouse


    eyeinthesky wrote: »
    Nothing unusual as the tracks were all going high yesterday.

    Please pardon my ignorance, but what has "high tracks" got to do with a plane "missing a turn" and having to double back on itself for what appears to be quite a distance - or is this normal?

    Direct: 4,349 sm Planned: 4,412 sm Flown: 6,261 sm


    Looking at the distance flown v distance scheduled, there seems to be a big difference.


    Thanks in advance.


  • #5
    highlydebased
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,472 ✭✭✭highlydebased


    superscouse wrote: »
    Please pardon my ignorance, but what has "high tracks" got to do with a plane "missing a turn" and having to double back on itself for what appears to be quite a distance - or is this normal?

    Thanks in advance.

    What you see on flightaware is a glitch- there's no way that it doubled back like that.

    "High tracks" would mean the north atlantic tracks which were more nothern than the rest. The NAT's change daily...they can be very northerly, southerly etc etc.


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