Caution! Wake Turbulence!

Here is a picture of N794UA which, if you are a close reader of my blog, was the plane I spotted on my recent trip Indianapolis. It just so happens this was the plane operating UA 248, my flight home to O'Hare on Wednesday! Wow! Even I think I'm a nerd for keeping track of this kind of stuff, but this is where it pays off.

My Thanksgiving trip was pretty good. I ate a lot and spent a lot of time with my family. This year we went to dinner at the Baranko's on Friday which was really nice.

Nothing overly eventful happened other than me drinking too much with Chuck one night and my parents not being very happy with me the next day.

N204UA 777-222/ER was my ORD-DEN aircraft

I left O'Hare this morning at 8 am. The weather was bad, but there were no unscheduled delays.

I'm amazed by how busy O'Hare and the airspace is around it can be. Case in point: our plane was told to depart from Rwy 27L. This is a westbound runway that is intersected about halfway down by 23L/14R. Arrivals were coming in on 14R and I was listening to arrivals on 14R being weaved in with departures on 27L. Its no wonder this airport's runways are getting reconfigured. Its amazing that this airport is able to function with stuff happening like this.

Our landing at DEN was extra special for me personally. We were cleared for a visual approach to 35R. They were also landing aircraft on 34R, 35L, and 35R. These runways are all parallel and I think DEN is the only airport in the country that is able to support landings like this. Out my window I saw a United 737 and a Frontier A319 landing to the left. It was very cool. A United 767 landing in front of us at ATC was warning our captian about wake turbuelnce. Funny to hear a 777 being warned about wake turbulence from a 767.

Anyway that was my book report from the airport. I'm flying again in about two weeks and this time Mr T is flying with me on Frontier. Hurrah!