The other YEG-YYZ flights around the same time went the normal way and flew 30 min faster, so it certainly wasn't for optimal winds. It looks worse than it is just a little bit; if you want to go straight south from YEG you have to route slightly west then over top of Calgary to stay clear of traffic going northbound from YYC to the Oil Sands.
My best guess is reports or a forecast of severe airframe icing or turbulence east of YEG, and Air Canada and Porter's dispatchers were happy to just go the normal way and deviate, or saw it differently in their tools. No way to know for sure.
Lord knows if you scroll through FlightAware and look at some of my plans I might not even remember why I have them on some bonkers route but it's usually for a reason.
There is a Cessna 172 Skyhawk flying outside doing some zig-zagging. It doesn’t seem like we’re in hail seeding season. I usually don’t mind the plane traffic, but the buzzing from this is starting to become grating.
This is pretty amazing, first real world use of the Garmin Emergency Autoland system. Brought down a King Air safely at Rocky Mountain airport NW of Denver. EDIT: Some rumours coming out that this is a 2 crew operation, and that it may have inadvertently been engaged by the crew. Still impressive to see it work outside of a test case.
That is precisely what happened on Saturday as the pilot of Beech B200 Super King Air N479BR became incapacitated about 20 minutes after departing Aspen for Denver. The operator of the aircraft, Buffalo River Aviation, tells local media that everyone on board is safe, but did not release any information on the condition of the pilot.
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