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last night was one of the few trips in the back of an RJ that I was happy to have not been in my own plane. The short trip from atlanta to peoria was slightly longer than usual

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Wimps. :)
 
momalley said:
I'm surprised they had enough fuel onboard for that slight deviation
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Other than about 100 mile deviation to the south of LFK (Lufkin), it looks like they flew the route pretty much as filed (plus a little short cut to the east of Razorback). Fueled it for the 3+ hour flight plan and reserves.
 
I see plenty of saddles to get through.
 
EdFred said:
I see plenty of saddles to get through.
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I've noticed that sometimes ATC will give you and everyone else a large reroute even though you might have been able to pick your way through. They don't want everyone trying to deviate because it would cause chaos.
 
Everskyward said:
I've noticed that sometimes ATC will give you and everyone else a large reroute even though you might have been able to pick your way through. They don't want everyone trying to deviate because it would cause chaos.
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Just let Ted go through first and give everyone that routing. :D
 
EdFred said:
Just let Ted go through first and give everyone that routing. :D
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Actually that's happened before. A Cirrus was behind me going around Charlotte with some storms by about 10 miles. After me getting sick of him asking for updates for a storm that was highly visible, I asked the controller "Is he basically following me?" "Yes." "Ok, just put him behind me and I'll let him know if there's anything bad."

But in the turbine world, I can see where it would be more problematic and makes sense to just give everyone a different route.
 
Ted DuPuis said:
Actually that's happened before. A Cirrus was behind me going around Charlotte with some storms by about 10 miles. After me getting sick of him asking for updates for a storm that was highly visible, I asked the controller "Is he basically following me?" "Yes." "Ok, just put him behind me and I'll let him know if there's anything bad."

But in the turbine world, I can see where it would be more problematic and makes sense to just give everyone a different route.
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I know, that's why I said follow you. :D
 
EdFred said:
I know, that's why I said follow you. :D
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The sad part is the Cirrus probably had better weather detection equipment. In fact, I'm sure of it. All I had were my Mark-II Eyeballs in the 310 at that time.

I guess they were just much better trained in a keen observation of the obvious. "Hey look! There's a storm! I'll fly the other way."
 
I feel you bud, feel like shouldn't have made it home last night after taking off at KUNV and headed to KBVI... I am still shaken up just because of those white puffy things in the sky....
 
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