I'm surprised they had enough fuel onboard for that slight deviation
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.I see plenty of saddles to get through.
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.
Just let Ted go through first and give everyone that routing.
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.
I know, that's why I said follow you.
I'm surprised they had enough fuel onboard for that slight deviation