UA 870 on 25 March 2017 Strange Route Diversion
Mar 25, 2017, 3:35 pm
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UA 870 on 25 March 2017 Strange Route Diversion
Half way across the Pacific according to FlightAware
https://flightaware.com/live/flight/...030Z/YSSY/KSFO
https://flightaware.com/live/flight/...030Z/YSSY/KSFO
Mar 25, 2017, 3:42 pm
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The little bump in the flight path?
Could have been avoiding a bit of weather
or
the flight path data is unreliable during the long overwater sections -- that is the cause of the glitchy data. very common.
Could have been avoiding a bit of weather
or
the flight path data is unreliable during the long overwater sections -- that is the cause of the glitchy data. very common.
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Mar 25, 2017, 5:24 pm
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Hope everybody was buckled up when the Captain turned hard right while slamming on the brakes to do that 180 :-)
Yeah, looks like the display algo was caught between showing the default straight line when no known data was available, and some flaky data on a path a bit SE. So it switched back and forth a few times.
Yeah, looks like the display algo was caught between showing the default straight line when no known data was available, and some flaky data on a path a bit SE. So it switched back and forth a few times.
Mar 25, 2017, 7:33 pm
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