[Revel]

They are watching this flight. British airways 225 over on the other thread. "

[judicial meanz]

Yikes...thats my neck of the woods there...


I live between Richmond and VA Beach

[Revel]

lightID: BAW225 (Commercial, Jet)
Status: Data TIMED OUT from the FAA on the 31st at 0243Z. (What does this mean?)
Company: BRITISH AIRWAYS

Why do flights TIMEOUT?

All of the data on flights comes to fboweb.com from the FAA in the form of messages. There is a message for when a flight files a flight plan, when it activates a flight plan (departs), a message for a position report for the flight, an arrival message, and so-on.

Position updates for each flight are sent once per minute.

In some cases, when a plane reaches its destination, an "arrival" message is never sent - we are told that this is because there is human involvement in the sending of this message, and in some cases this message is simply never transmitted over the data feed.

In other cases, a flight may pass outside of US airpspace. When this happens, position messages simply stop coming. As a result, fboweb.com will "TIME OUT" a flight, rather than show it still, inaccurately, floating around in the same space.

This process is common among flight-tracking service providers, and is the best solution to an imperfect process.

[WestCoastGal]

Last time the two flights in question were BA223 and AF68. BA225 was also one canceled along with 223 and two others Christmas Eve and day. But 223 contined to be heavily screened until after New Years if I remember correctly. There is a freeper who is a controller, I will see if I can find him.