Unexpected flight route
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maccboy

Original Poster:

762 posts

160 months

Monday 26th January
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Can anyone explain why this plane has chosen to take the route it has? Why does it not just go north from the runway? Cheers.

Hill92

5,159 posts

212 months

Monday 26th January
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High ground to the north west. Needs space to climb first before they can cross the Alps.

maccboy

Original Poster:

762 posts

160 months

Monday 26th January
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Cheers! That makes sense. I noticed an earlier flight did the same thing.

HiAsAKite

2,513 posts

269 months

Monday 26th January
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Yup.. huge mountains in the way!

InformationSuperHighway

7,331 posts

206 months

Yesterday (21:25)
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Generally always a good reason, they don't like to waste fuel for fun hehe

I fly out of LAX regularly and the routes / loops they go through are wild... all for air traffic reasons of course.

Mabbs9

1,537 posts

240 months

Also can be interactions with inbound routes but I agree that here is the proximity of the terrain that influences the departure routes. Notice the min alts and spd control on the departure too.