A Flight I Denied (172RG To Fiji) Lets Wish Him Luck he is "Enroute"

Jim Burns wrote:
"NW_Pilot" wrote in message
ferry flight or back home.

I think that's happening now. Hope it wasn't anything life threatening.


He's not even heading back to his airport of origin... he's skeedaddling
straight due east. I wonder what happened?



--
Mortimer Schnerd, RN
mschnerdatcarolina.rr.com

Give it some time sometimes the flightaware system is a bit buggy while
enroute will show a 180 for climbs etc.... and it all depends on his
position reports also. Remember no Radar Service out there.


"Mortimer Schnerd, RN" mschnerdatcarolina.rr.com wrote in message
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Jim Burns wrote:
"NW_Pilot" wrote in message
ferry flight or back home.

I think that's happening now. Hope it wasn't anything life threatening.


He's not even heading back to his airport of origin... he's skeedaddling
straight due east. I wonder what happened?



--
Mortimer Schnerd, RN
mschnerdatcarolina.rr.com

In a previous article, "NW_Pilot" said:
Give it some time sometimes the flightaware system is a bit buggy while
enroute will show a 180 for climbs etc.... and it all depends on his
position reports also. Remember no Radar Service out there.

Well, now it's showing him back outbound again.


--
Paul Tomblin http://blog.xcski.com/
"AOL would be a giant diesel-smoking bus with hundreds of ebola victims on
board throwing dead wombats and rotten cabbage at the other cars"
- a.s.r throws the Information Superhighway metaphor into reverse.

In a previous article, (Paul Tomblin) said:
In a previous article, "NW_Pilot" said:
Give it some time sometimes the flightaware system is a bit buggy while
enroute will show a 180 for climbs etc.... and it all depends on his
position reports also. Remember no Radar Service out there.

Well, now it's showing him back outbound again.

And now the outbound track appears to be in a perfect line with the
original outbound track. Which makes me think that out and back spike was
a glitch.



--
Paul Tomblin http://blog.xcski.com/
"Whoah, whoah! A fat sarcastic Star Trek fan? You must be a devil with the
ladies!" - Simpsons

He seems to be making hourly position reports about 1/2 past the hour.
Jim

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Mortimer Schnerd, RN mschnerdatcarolina.rr.com wrote:
Jim Burns wrote:
"NW_Pilot" wrote in message
ferry flight or back home.

I think that's happening now. Hope it wasn't anything life threatening.


He's not even heading back to his airport of origin... he's skeedaddling
straight due east. I wonder what happened?

How does Flight Aware generate its oceanic tracks? There isn't
radar out there. It might just be estimated positions. Or maybe
his GPS went out, and he is heading due east since he is guaranteed
to hit land that way...

Hopefully it is nothing life threatening.

John
--
John Clear - http://www.clear-prop.org/

"John Clear" wrote in message
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Mortimer Schnerd, RN mschnerdatcarolina.rr.com wrote:
Jim Burns wrote:
"NW_Pilot" wrote in message
ferry flight or back home.

I think that's happening now. Hope it wasn't anything life threatening.


He's not even heading back to his airport of origin... he's skeedaddling
straight due east. I wonder what happened?

How does Flight Aware generate its oceanic tracks? There isn't
radar out there. It might just be estimated positions. Or maybe
his GPS went out, and he is heading due east since he is guaranteed
to hit land that way...

Hopefully it is nothing life threatening.

John
--
John Clear - http://www.clear-prop.org/


I am sure there is traffic in the aera and he could get a relay and he also
will be HF or Sat phone equipped.(He Better Be) and always have a back up
GPS just incase.

("NW_Pilot" wrote)
Hopefully it is nothing life threatening.

I am sure there is traffic in the aera and he could get a relay and he
also will be HF or Sat phone equipped.(He Better Be) and always have a
back up GPS just incase.


Don't you hate when you're out over the Pacific, and you can't remember if
you left the iron plugged in?

He/she is making a beeline back to shore.

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N9484B

Wait a minute! Now he/she's heading out again. Hmm?

Hope he/she is actually flying the plane.


Montblack

"Montblack" wrote in message
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("NW_Pilot" wrote)
Hopefully it is nothing life threatening.

I am sure there is traffic in the aera and he could get a relay and he
also will be HF or Sat phone equipped.(He Better Be) and always have a
back up GPS just incase.


Don't you hate when you're out over the Pacific, and you can't remember if
you left the iron plugged in?

He/she is making a beeline back to shore.

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N9484B

Wait a minute! Now he/she's heading out again. Hmm?

Hope he/she is actually flying the plane.


Montblack


Look at the track log

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N.../PHNL/tracklog

"NW_Pilot" wrote:
Look at the track log

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N.../PHNL/tracklog

Time Position(Lat/Long) Speed(kts) Altitude(ft)
....
07:28PM 36.17 -137.50 318 9000
....

That's quite a tail wind!