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aircraft "zigzag" flight tracks

mobpd · 2012-11-12 21:01:49

Just looking at a few live flight tracks of planes heading from east coast USA to Asia destinations going north. Most of the tracks are quite. marked zigzags - why would this be?

12-11-2012 9:01pm

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mobpd

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Just looking at a few live flight tracks of planes heading from east coast USA to Asia destinations going north. Most of the tracks are quite. marked zigzags - why would this be?

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#2 12-11-2012 9:14pm

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mobpd wrote: »

Just looking at a few live flight tracks of planes heading from east coast USA to Asia destinations going north. Most of the tracks are quite. marked zigzags - why would this be?

The aircraft are not flying like that. Most likely computer error either software or something else.

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#3 13-11-2012 10:28am

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ridiculous zigzag or just not in a straight line? polar routes might be waypoint-to-waypoint if they're outside radar coverage so that atc is able to provide positive separation. north atlantic routes have specific tracks defined every day to bypass this potential problem.

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