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Route for Southwest flights, Reno to San Jose?
Can anyone tell me what might have been the detailed route for our
RNO-SJC flight today, Mon 28 July, 1:00 to 1:55 pm (in terms of common geographic waypoints or GPS coordinates)? I'd always had the impression these flights departed RNO heading more or less straight west and passing well to the north of Lake Tahoe and even Donner Lake, then angling southwest toward San Jose; and it seemed to me that was what we were doing today, though with the fairly severe haze and smoke currently in the Tahoe area, I couldn't pick out any Tahoe landmarks (looking across the Lake this morning, one couldn't see the far shore even in the narrow direction). About half or a third of the way into today's flight, however, from 23,000 feet we saw an obviously large fire zone area (no visible fires, but large area of heavy smoke) almost under our flight path on the left side of the plane, and easily visible in the middle distance was what sure looked like Half Dome. I kept thinking we really wouldn't have departed that far east and south of a straight-line path from Reno to SJC, and that this must have been one of the less publicized fires in the region NW of Highway 80; but on the other hand we ended up (with minimal banking and turning that I could sense) coming up into SJC up along what I took to be Highway 101 from the south. Would our route really have passed that close to Yosemite? |
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Route for Southwest flights, Reno to San Jose?
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AES wrote: Can anyone tell me what might have been the detailed route for our RNO-SJC flight today, Mon 28 July, 1:00 to 1:55 pm (in terms of common geographic waypoints or GPS coordinates)? [...] Would our route really have passed that close to Yosemite? http://flightaware.com/live/flight/S...009Z/KRNO/KSJC Looks like you did pass by the Yosemite area. In case the URL goes stale, the flight path was due south out of RNO, then southwest to Merced, and then northwest into SJC (El Nido Five Arrival). John -- John Clear - http://www.clear-prop.org/ |
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Route for Southwest flights, Reno to San Jose?
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(John Clear) wrote: In article , AES wrote: Can anyone tell me what might have been the detailed route for our RNO-SJC flight today, Mon 28 July, 1:00 to 1:55 pm (in terms of common geographic waypoints or GPS coordinates)? http://flightaware.com/live/flight/S...009Z/KRNO/KSJC Looks like you did pass by the Yosemite area. In case the URL goes stale, the flight path was due south out of RNO, then southwest to Merced, and then northwest into SJC (El Nido Five Arrival). A few minutes spent with Google Earth also confirmed that any hopes I may have had for a career in airline navigation would best be abandoned; I should stick to well-signed freeways. Thanks for the pointer to the flight history above, which I was able to recover, and thinking back on our ground path at Reno before takeoff also makes it clear that we indeed departed more or less straight S on runway 16 R and continued in that direction for some time; with the fairly gentle arc of the flight path helping to indicate why I failed to notice any of the subsequent turns. |
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Route for Southwest flights, Reno to San Jose?
AES wrote:
Can anyone tell me what might have been the detailed route for our RNO-SJC flight today, Mon 28 July, 1:00 to 1:55 pm (in terms of common geographic waypoints or GPS coordinates)? I'd always had the impression these flights departed RNO heading more or less straight west and passing well to the north of Lake Tahoe and even Donner Lake, then angling southwest toward San Jose; and it seemed to me that was what we were doing today, though with the fairly severe haze and smoke currently in the Tahoe area, I couldn't pick out any Tahoe landmarks (looking across the Lake this morning, one couldn't see the far shore even in the narrow direction). About half or a third of the way into today's flight, however, from 23,000 feet we saw an obviously large fire zone area (no visible fires, but large area of heavy smoke) almost under our flight path on the left side of the plane, and easily visible in the middle distance was what sure looked like Half Dome. I kept thinking we really wouldn't have departed that far east and south of a straight-line path from Reno to SJC, and that this must have been one of the less publicized fires in the region NW of Highway 80; but on the other hand we ended up (with minimal banking and turning that I could sense) coming up into SJC up along what I took to be Highway 101 from the south. Would our route really have passed that close to Yosemite? Great site (http://flightaware.com/live/). Track your own flight or commerical. Lots of options. -- Regards, Ross C-172F 180HP KSWI |
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