Weird Flight Path over Michigan
Feb 27, 2015, 12:18 pm
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Weird Flight Path over Michigan
I know Flight aware often has inaccuracies in it's data, however I don't think this one is inaccurate. But it is however very odd. Thoughts what was going on at midnight over Michigan?
Maybe looking for Jimmy Hoffa?
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N...458Z/KJXN/KJXN
Maybe looking for Jimmy Hoffa?
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N...458Z/KJXN/KJXN
Feb 27, 2015, 12:37 pm
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I know Flight aware often has inaccuracies in it's data, however I don't think this one is inaccurate. But it is however very odd. Thoughts what was going on at midnight over Michigan?
Maybe looking for Jimmy Hoffa?
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N...458Z/KJXN/KJXN
Maybe looking for Jimmy Hoffa?
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N...458Z/KJXN/KJXN
Feb 27, 2015, 2:57 pm
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Interesting that the line before that indicates the flight was listed as jackson to flint and then has diverted on that. Flight path does have it going to the flint area first.
I would think based on the positioning of the plane that there'd be too much light polution to be doing aurora watching. Straight north to get just north of lansing would make more sense than that rather than flying up to flint then working your way SE. That area has a fair amount of light polution. Quite honestly, it's pretty rare that we can see the Aurora from this far south anyways (and I'd say just about every time it's supposed to be possible it's almost guaranteed to be cloudy).
The patterns flown make more think more along the lines of surveying.
I would think based on the positioning of the plane that there'd be too much light polution to be doing aurora watching. Straight north to get just north of lansing would make more sense than that rather than flying up to flint then working your way SE. That area has a fair amount of light polution. Quite honestly, it's pretty rare that we can see the Aurora from this far south anyways (and I'd say just about every time it's supposed to be possible it's almost guaranteed to be cloudy).
The patterns flown make more think more along the lines of surveying.
Feb 27, 2015, 3:00 pm
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Interesting that the line before that indicates the flight was listed as jackson to flint and then has diverted on that. Flight path does have it going to the flint area first.
I would think based on the positioning of the plane that there'd be too much light polution to be doing aurora watching. Straight north to get just north of lansing would make more sense than that rather than flying up to flint then working your way SE. That area has a fair amount of light polution. Quite honestly, it's pretty rare that we can see the Aurora from this far south anyways (and I'd say just about every time it's supposed to be possible it's almost guaranteed to be cloudy).
The patterns flown make more think more along the lines of surveying.
I would think based on the positioning of the plane that there'd be too much light polution to be doing aurora watching. Straight north to get just north of lansing would make more sense than that rather than flying up to flint then working your way SE. That area has a fair amount of light polution. Quite honestly, it's pretty rare that we can see the Aurora from this far south anyways (and I'd say just about every time it's supposed to be possible it's almost guaranteed to be cloudy).
The patterns flown make more think more along the lines of surveying.
A friend looked up the Mooney's tail number. It belongs to a private company and was just registered last week, FWIW.
Feb 27, 2015, 6:14 pm
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Maybe someone doing some sort of IFR training / practice? I used to grab the proverbial "$100 hamburger" (it was actually breakfast
) there all the time and there were always folks practicing approaches / holds / etc. there - they have a manned tower to work with (at least they used to!). That airport has a good restaurant with a ramp that is jammed up with airplanes on Saturday and Sunday. It used to be really cool to fly in there when the NASCAR / Indy crews were in town to see all of their private jets lined up.
) there all the time and there were always folks practicing approaches / holds / etc. there - they have a manned tower to work with (at least they used to!). That airport has a good restaurant with a ramp that is jammed up with airplanes on Saturday and Sunday. It used to be really cool to fly in there when the NASCAR / Indy crews were in town to see all of their private jets lined up.
Feb 27, 2015, 8:40 pm
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Maybe someone doing some sort of IFR training / practice? I used to grab the proverbial "$100 hamburger" (it was actually breakfast) there all the time and there were always folks practicing approaches / holds / etc. there - they have a manned tower to work with (at least they used to!). That airport has a good restaurant with a ramp that is jammed up with airplanes on Saturday and Sunday. It used to be really cool to fly in there when the NASCAR / Indy crews were in town to see all of their private jets lined up.
) there all the time and there were always folks practicing approaches / holds / etc. there - they have a manned tower to work with (at least they used to!). That airport has a good restaurant with a ramp that is jammed up with airplanes on Saturday and Sunday. It used to be really cool to fly in there when the NASCAR / Indy crews were in town to see all of their private jets lined up.
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Mar 17, 2015, 5:09 am
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I’ve been in normal flights and at arrival my kid (who logs to Flightaware) will ask me all exited what happened in flight that the plane apparently went back and forth…
I assume that it´s some kind of bug having to do with flightware predicting where the plane should be and mixing it with where the plane actually is…
Mar 17, 2015, 10:56 am
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unlikely to be holding patterns; flight duration was only 1+14 which is actually pretty quick for ORD-DCA
the track log data in FlightAware has no entries showing the flight on a northwesterly track, so the issue is certainly with the translation of aircraft data to the map plot
the track log data in FlightAware has no entries showing the flight on a northwesterly track, so the issue is certainly with the translation of aircraft data to the map plot