per flight aware. ZA006 is going to be on a marathon 20 hr + flight today overflying JFK, PVD and BOS. Of course it's going to be cloudy and raining! They are heading to Dacca the long way.
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/BOE6
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per flight aware. ZA006 is going to be on a marathon 20 hr + flight today overflying JFK, PVD and BOS. Of course it's going to be cloudy and raining! They are heading to Dacca the long way.
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/BOE6
I think the flight path is way up North so no chance even it it was clear.
Not taking the short polar route. Check out the route of flight on flightaware.
TEMPL094050 DIK J70 ABR J90 RWF J34 WOOST J146 JFK J225 PVD J55 BOS J575 YQY VIXUN LOGSU 4900N 5000W 5100N 4000W 5100N 3000W 4900N 2000W BERUX UP179 STG UN725 ORKUM UM603 ARSIK UM731 TEKSA UM732 CAR UM871 NOTRI UQ789 ORTAP UP167 ARLOS UN4 SALUN A145 BRN UP751 LXR A145 ALMAL B418 ASPAN UN318 LOXAT N318 KATIK A415 SHJ P307 VAXIM L301 RASKI L301 NOBAT L505 OPAKA G450 CEA A462 DAC
Geesh, imagine that read back to Clearance Delivery :tongue:
Simple, Boeing 004 Heavy, Cleared to the Daca Airport via the Kent 6 departure then as filed, climb and maintain 9K, expect FL410 5 miles from the airfield, dep freq 120.1, Squawk ____. Haha I may have called for clearance for a few friends before :P.Quote:
Originally Posted by gonzalu
LOL BrandonQuote:
Originally Posted by seahawks7757
Listening to CD at Dulles once, I heard Springbok get a full route clearance, trans-oceanic and all, over the radio. Must have taken 7 or 8 minutes for the controller to read the whole thing. I was secretly hoping for the pilot to respond and say, "Springbok 208 heavy, cliiiiiiihd to Johannesberg, dirikt WOOLY, and could you repeat the riiiiist?" But, no, he read it back... all 7 or 8 minutes worth. I can just imagine whoever else was waiting to push fuming at getting a delay for this.