AES wrote:
> Can anyone tell me what might have been the detailed route for our
> RNO->SJC flight today, Mon 28 July, 1:00 to 1:55 pm (in terms of common
> geographic waypoints or GPS coordinates)?
>
> I'd always had the impression these flights departed RNO heading more or
> less straight west and passing well to the north of Lake Tahoe and even
> Donner Lake, then angling southwest toward San Jose; and it seemed to me
> that was what we were doing today, though with the fairly severe haze
> and smoke currently in the Tahoe area, I couldn't pick out any Tahoe
> landmarks (looking across the Lake this morning, one couldn't see the
> far shore even in the narrow direction).
>
> About half or a third of the way into today's flight, however, from
> 23,000 feet we saw an obviously large fire zone area (no visible fires,
> but large area of heavy smoke) almost under our flight path on the left
> side of the plane, and easily visible in the middle distance was what
> sure looked like Half Dome.
>
> I kept thinking we really wouldn't have departed that far east and south
> of a straight-line path from Reno to SJC, and that this must have been
> one of the less publicized fires in the region NW of Highway 80; but on
> the other hand we ended up (with minimal banking and turning that I
> could sense) coming up into SJC up along what I took to be Highway 101
> from the south.
>
> Would our route really have passed that close to Yosemite?
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Regards, Ross
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