American Airlines Virtual

Hi Guys,

I'm not sure if this interests anyone here, but certainly this side of real world airline operations really fascinates me.

As many of you US residents will probably know, yesterday evening a huge line of thunderstorms developed from western Texas, stretching all the way across Kansas, eastern Nebraska, Iowa and Wisconsin towards the great lakes. This effectively put up a 1200 mile long wall right across the country causing some nice unusual flightplanning and all sorts of fun-and-games for the flight crews and air traffic controllers I'm sure.

AAL16 KSFO-KJFK went all the way up to Montana and North Dakota to go around:



AAL180 KLAX-KJFK went south:



AAL144 KLAX-KIAD was very lucky and managed to find a tiny tiny gap to squeeze through:



Unfortunately our friends over at Virgin American on VRD90 from KSFO also trying to go to KIAD were not as lucky and after a big avoiding maneuver eventually had to drop into our AA fortress at DFW for a top-up:



Even with the best weather programs, a side of flying that we don't normally encounter in FS!

Even with the best weather programs, a side of flying that we don't normally encounter in FS!

Last evenings GFI, took us from Montgomery Alabama to the Bahamas. My weather reflected those storms down in the southern part of Alabama and louisiana. Of course we flew right thru 'em.