Posted on 06/11/2023 12:18:37 PM PDT by dynachrome
I ran across this while mousing around. Several flights are looping around without landing.
Heavy rain
Thanks! It was just weird to see so many looping around. May have to land elsewhere.
Somebody’s emotional support animal broke loose?
My pterodactyl is upset.
Likely high crosswinds and poor visibility. Common to be put on a holding pattern.
Stacking aircraft in holding patterns for sequencing to land due to weather conditions/active runway/multiple aircraft arriving simultaneously.
Normal operations.
My son was flying back from Columbus, OH last summer and I was going to pick him up at Midway. The plane should never have taken off, because there was a huge and strong storm covering all of Indiana. I watched it on Flight Aware. You should have seen the convoluted path they flew waiting to get around the storm. They were even in Michigan for a while and I thought maybe they were headed to Detroit. After all that flying around, they didn’t have enough fuel to make it to Chicago and went back to Columbus.
I was stuck in Columbus for an extra 2 days because of that winter storm last Christmas.
They tried the flight again around 11 p.m. and he made it home. The most recent time he went, he drove.
Coming in on a flight from Amsterdam we circled the Detroit airport for two hours because of a thunderstorm that wouldn’t move.
Want something really interesting? A Belgian military Dassault Falcon 7x flew from Brussels to Fort Worth Meacham on Saturday starting at 430Am Brussels and arriving at 3:30 pm Texas time... mostly at 349 knots.
Today, looking a military flights the same call sign 00-LUM, is on the way back way north of newfoundland and above Iceland on it’s course.
What the hell would a Belgian military high officer carrier be doing for one overnight in Fort Worth?
Here’s the current ADS-B track now at 41K feet and 507 knots rapidly coming just south of Erie, PA along the lake. Interestig for the speed and altitude and that it is a Belgian military (not NATO btw).
https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=44b2ad
The Belgian plane is BAF87 so named id’d on Flight Radar right now.
Yeah, WTH?
Daughter #2 occasionally goes to Detroit and Cincinnati on business. For a time she was flying out of O’Hare. Now she drives- it’s less of a hassle for her.
I picked up daughter #1 from O’Hare this afternoon, she came in from Kansas.
That place is a freaking mess. White knuckle driving at its finest…
On those kind of trips, it certainly makes sense to drive. The last time I was at O’Hare was to drop my son for a very, very early flight. It was okay then, but the rest of the day has to be pretty crazy.
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