Cool Video of FedEx Wx Diversions

[iRide]

Turn up the volume. Bones, thanks for sharing this.

Chip

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[Dave Taylor]

a pic (or series of them) is worth a thousand thank-you's to atc for what they do every day.
I could see them workin it there.

[Adam Zucker]

Very cool thanks for the post Chip.

[Tony]

thats pretty neat

[Arnold]

Serously cool. I saw diversions to Nashvilee, Little Rock, St. Louis and Dallas at the end there.

[Go Lobos (15)]

That was really cool. I liked how the aircraft just barely missed the weather.

Very neat

[Greg Bockelman]

That reminded me of a bunch of worker ants trying to get to the nest.

I found it interesting that it took longer for some of those diversions to get to the alternates than it would have taken to just wait out the storm and then land.

[iGismo]

Reminds me of my last foray in to the same vicinity. I noticed that some of the pilots appeared to be a bit braver than most.

[flyifrvfr]

The music was cool, and you can see some of the aircraft in the hold and divert to alt.

[iNdigo]

Originally Posted by Greg Bockelman

That reminded me of a bunch of worker ants trying to get to the nest.

Then someone got the Raid out.

[Frank Cason]

Originally Posted by Greg Bockelman

That reminded me of a bunch of worker ants trying to get to the nest.

Millions of years of evolution, intelligence, civilization, computers, technology, wisdom...and we finally achieved ant status.

[~John]

Does anyone know what timeframe that covers? There's a counter in the lower left but I can't read it. I'd suspect if we monitored all arrivals at a given airport over a 24 hour period, we'd see the same behavior.

What the storm needed was the "shark" music from JAWS!

[Adam]

Very cool display. I like how it was a single file line going around the red.

[Dave Krall CFII SEL SES]

Outstanding time lapse and great score. Thank You.

[Chas]

I liked those pilots (maybe three) who decided to hold for a while to the north, then came in for landing after the Wx had passed. 'Course, not everyone has the fuel for that option .....

[Tim]

I know one of the guys at Metron (who make the POET software that takes all the FAA radar data and stores it and displays it - it's the basis of sites like FlightAware.com) and maybe I can get some other raw data from him.

Sure was neat.

[Rob Singles]

Thats an awesome video. Thanks

[Rob]

That was pretty cool!

[Dave Siciliano]

Hey Chip! Here's a link to another neat one that show's a normal day of operations in much the same manner.


http://digitalcreations.cc/videos/FDX_25HR_OPS.wmv


Dave

[Flyersfan31]

I liked watching the few brave souls who saw green on the radar and decided to chance scooting through it. You end up either on the evening news, or on the ground sipping coffee...

[Flyersfan31]

And, yeah, that's cool, but it doesn't explain why my two-day package was delivered across the street and two doors down....

I WANT ANSWERS DMMIT!

[iQuagmire]

Originally Posted by lancefisher

I noticed that some of the pilots appeared to be a bit braver than most.

I wonder what the passenger airlines would have done? IOW, when does passenger comfort come into play when deciding how close to get to the weather?

[Dave Taylor]

would someone pls pm me the link; I wanted to show a bud.

[Bruce]

http://media.putfile.com/FedEx-58