Odd Flight Path, Can Anyone Explain?

[AshVX220]

Hi All, got friends coming to stay for a week and been tracking their flight on Flight radar 24, (Virgin 27 - VIR27X). It just did a very odd dogleg, prior to the dog-leg it was only 10 minutes delayed, now it's delayed a lot more, anyone got any idea's? I'm not a subscriber so can't see if it squaked a problem or anything.

Interestingly the dog-leg has now been replaced with a Green dashed line.

[MitchT]

Looks fine to me. The dashed line is probably where there's a gap in coverage so FR24 approximates the route. Sometimes the line will move when proper data is re-established as the plane might have gone a slightly different way to the direction originally estimated.

[AshVX220]

MitchT said:

Looks fine to me. The dashed line is probably where there's a gap in coverage so FR24 approximates the route. Sometimes the line will move when proper data is re-established as the plane might have gone a slightly different way to the direction originally estimated.

Cool,
cheers.

[mybrainhurts]

Looks like a bit of a tail wind there.

Probably taking the downhill route and got a touch of brake fade...

[AshVX220]

mybrainhurts said:

Looks like a bit of a tail wind there.

Probably taking the downhill route and got a touch of brake fade...