Art of Flight Tracking

First of all, apologies for not posting lately (except for lame attempt at moblogging). But I have a good excuse. I moved! Let me tell you, I hate moving. With a passion. I only moved to the other side of town but it was still a pain in the ass. My mom is right. I have too much shit. Except she doesn't use that word. Because she talks to me in Japanese.

Anyway, that's not what this post is about!!!

My best friend from NJ was in town this past weekend, and he unfortunately had to go home today. (;_;) I don't suffer from fear of flying myself, but I have weird anxiety about other people flying. And it's all rain and stormy today so that added to the worriment. So, I've been obsessively tracking his flight.

First, I went to FlyteComm. I don't know why the flight took the path it did, but it went east, as you would expect, but then turned sharply and went northwest for a bit and pretty much turned around. Weird...

Then I decided to go to USATODAY.com to see what they had to say. Then finally to the NWA website.

FlyteComm

USATODAY.com

NWA

I'm confused... Where are they getting the estimated arrival time data from??? And why does NWA's actual departure time different from the other two sites? I mean this is ACTUAL departure time... You would think they would all have the same time for that. My guess is that Northwest does arrival/departure to/from the gate.

I just got a text message confirming that he got in safe! Yay!

So, final results:

FlyteComm => "Arrived" 9:19 PM
USATODAY.com => "Landed" 9:18 PM
NWA => "Arrived" 9:28 PM (earlier it said "Landed" at 9:17 PM)

Wow. I just wasted so much time tracking this flight using 3 websites... (And analyzing.) It's almost like I was on the plane myself. Hahaha. Except I kind of had fun. And I wasn't cramped between two gravitationally challenged people who smell.

Now that I'm done moving, look forward to moar worthless posts coming soon!