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Mar 15, 2010 | 9:36 pm

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Originally Posted by sbm12

The entire flight is a series of vectors given to the pilots by ATC. Basically it is the series of turns and altitude changes a plane makes from take-off to landing. When things go bad and landings are spaced out more the flight might look a lot more like /\/\/\/\/\/\ than -----------. That would be getting "vectored around."

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