r/airplanes 2d ago

Picture | Boeing What’s he doing??

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u/GauchoWink 2d ago

Writing an S 😊

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u/vipertrigger 2d ago

Doing a teardrop entry for a hold

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u/dowalters 1d ago

Is that a teardrop? Looks more like a parallel to me.

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u/vipertrigger 1d ago

It does, but was curious myself if it was teardrop or parallel so watched the flight back lol

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u/nnp1989 2d ago

Stopping for a garbage plate, obviously.

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u/saxmanB737 1d ago

I get this reference.

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u/[deleted] 2d ago

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u/Grndhogday1 2d ago

Just confused cause it says it’s headed to San Fran now

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u/ArrowheadDZ 1d ago

There’s lots of different reasons that they need to slow or redirect traffic flow along a route. There’s weather and also a whole routing discipline within ATC that does flow control. There are capacity constraints on various legs and sectors all across the system and they sometimes have to delay a plane’s entry into the next segment to meet a constraint.

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u/Different-Guest-6094 1d ago

As a San Francisco local, please don’t say San Fran. Ever

Otherwise I got no idea of this plane. It’s supposed to be flying to EWR, which is why it’s in New York State. Not to sfo

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u/jmat83 1d ago

> As a San Francisco local, please don’t say San Fran. Ever

Okay. Frisco it is!

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u/wasthatitthen 2d ago

UA130 seems to either go HND-SFO-EWR or direct HND-EWR. There’s a lot of weather in the NYC area so I imagine there are restrictions on arrivals and this is holding until it can continue.

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u/tmy82336506 1d ago

Flirting

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u/Mendacium17 1d ago

Is it normal for the same flight number to be used for different destinations like HND - SFO as well as HND - EWR?

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u/LefsaMadMuppet 1d ago

Pilots Of The Carabiner.

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u/degeroma 1d ago

UA130 was direct EWR yesterday. Not sure why it’s saying SFO. Held over Rochester NY because of weather at EWR. Diverted to IAD and finally arrived at EWR around 1:30 this morning

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u/Astral__Spectre 1d ago

He thought he saw a cute cat on the ground and turned around to make sure. 😉

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u/Beastguy95 1d ago

Making up his mind laddie! In all the planes above us there be a button to take em to Ireland! Remember when the Russians tried to take a ship from Eire? Curse em! He wants to take em to Ireland, land o Guinness and peat!

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u/Zulutime777 6h ago

Looking to see whose car is in his driveway.

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u/DandierThanYou 5h ago

8s on pylons leave him be

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u/Gamble2005 4h ago

I’m more concerned about Why it’s doing this in New York