Posted on 10/24/2018 8:30:11 AM PDT by C19fan
A Turkish Airlines flight journeying from Panama City to Istanbul, Turkey, took the brazen step of flying an additional 800 miles outside its usual flightpath, but passengers onboard might have otherwise been oblivious.
The re-route was a huge divergence from its usual trajectory across the Atlantic and through the Mediterranean, but thanks to excess windspeed harnessed by the jet stream, Flight 800 touched down on Turkish soil on time and unscathed.
Wired first noticed the Airbus A330's arch-shaped journey on the website Flight Radar. On a mock-up rendering of the flight, the plane traverses the U.S. eastern seaboard before skirting the Arctic Circle's edge and descending into Greek and eventually Turkish airspace.
(Excerpt) Read more at popularmechanics.com ...
The shortest distance between two points is a great circle! That on the other hand is a really great circle! I think the fastest groundspeed I’ve seen on the Jet I fly is about 680 kn. I fly much faster jet than any airbus (ick) by the way. Just never saw those kinds of when’s well I’ve been out
Climate change causing more intense Jet Streams. Airline fuel savings increase!
Siri must have said, ‘turn right at the next latitude’ instead of, ‘keep straight’.
Other than getting the direction of the jetstream mixed up, not a bad article.
I recently stumbled across ventusky.com, a great weather map. You can look at temperatures or wind speeds at various altitudes. Zoom out for a world view and take a look at the winds at 9000 meters altitude. It’s impressive with winds topping 100 mph. The other day I found some patches at over 200 mph and that’s just the jet stream, not storm related.
And if you really want to p*ss away the hours at your computer screen:
Real Time Flight Airplane Tracking
Real Time Ship Tracking
Watch cruise ships come and go:
PTZ TV: https://www.portevergladeswebcam.com/
If flight got there at same time, what’s the point? Same time, same fuel, longer distance. Nice views though. ?
Bookmarked. Thank you.
FWIW, Don’t EVAH fly Turkish Airlines.
At one time they were the most dangerous airline in the world.
In the ‘60s I had a TA flight from Istanbul to Izmir, with a Muslim woman holding a goat on her lap.
I kid you not!
“In the ‘60s I had a TA flight from Istanbul to Izmir, with a Muslim woman holding a goat on her lap.”
That goat was her husbands girlfriend, or next wife.
“I kid you not!”
I believe you.
Life is stranger than fiction or satire.
Pretty good deal, kids fly free!
Not surprising. About two years ago I took a Delta flight from Sacramento to Atlanta that left about and hour and a half late but arrived on time due to jet stream and throttles that were opened a bit farther than usual.
Doesn’t the Jet Stream flow west to east, the article mentioned east to west.
Thanks for this.
“Pretty good deal, kids fly free!”
:)
Thanks.
I don’t see where it says the fuel used was the same. In fact, since they didn’t arrive early, my assumption was that the whole idea was to save fuel.But if the plan was to save fuel, I wonder if it was a big winner in that department, considering the speed you have to maintain just to have enough Q to keep the plane aloft at high altitude. If you cut your burn rate a lot, seems like you’d fall out of the sky.
If the burn rate wasn’t significantly lower, and the flight time wasn’t lower . . .
Thanks Robert A Cook PE.
I know this is unkind or un-PC but the military stationed there always said: *Turkey is 300 years behind the rest of the civilized world, and working 3 days a week to catch up.*
>8P
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