Geographic route
Aug 1, 2015, 12:40 pm
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Geographic route
On a DTW-NRT flight, has anyone been on a flight that went north of Alaska and over Kamchatka (far eastern Russia)? The pilot said we would be leaving DTW and going right over Sault Ste. Marie, which would make sense on that routing. The electronic map on the plane was consistent the whole way with that route.
This was my first trans-pac flight since 1990 and flying over Kamchatka would have been out of the question at that time.
This was my first trans-pac flight since 1990 and flying over Kamchatka would have been out of the question at that time.
Aug 1, 2015, 1:26 pm
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On a DTW-NRT flight, has anyone been on a flight that went north of Alaska and over Kamchatka (far eastern Russia)? The pilot said we would be leaving DTW and going right over Sault Ste. Marie, which would make sense on that routing. The electronic map on the plane was consistent the whole way with that route.
This was my first trans-pac flight since 1990 and flying over Kamchatka would have been out of the question at that time.
This was my first trans-pac flight since 1990 and flying over Kamchatka would have been out of the question at that time.
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/A...745Z/KDFW/VHHH
Aug 2, 2015, 12:30 pm
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On a DTW-NRT flight, has anyone been on a flight that went north of Alaska and over Kamchatka (far eastern Russia)? The pilot said we would be leaving DTW and going right over Sault Ste. Marie, which would make sense on that routing. The electronic map on the plane was consistent the whole way with that route.
This was my first trans-pac flight since 1990 and flying over Kamchatka would have been out of the question at that time.
This was my first trans-pac flight since 1990 and flying over Kamchatka would have been out of the question at that time.
Aug 2, 2015, 12:53 pm
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Aug 2, 2015, 3:58 pm
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I've flown the polar route a number of times on TPAC to/from MSP--although some folks would consider MSP itself to be polar. More interestingly, I once flew straight east on a NRT-MSP flight. The explanation was that the winds that day made not flying north the most fuel efficient route.
Aug 3, 2015, 5:35 am
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I've flown the polar route a number of times on TPAC to/from MSP--although some folks would consider MSP itself to be polar. More interestingly, I once flew straight east on a NRT-MSP flight. The explanation was that the winds that day made not flying north the most fuel efficient route.
There was a volcanic eruption in Russia that precluded us from going polar.