Simple answer

I dont know much about the technical terms, but being an avid tracker myself and staying at las vegas, my simple explanation can be this:

During the evening times, the flights tend to take off from the east to west direction irrespective of the destination…the flights heading towards north east destinations such as new york, chicago etc tend to make an immediate turn once up in the air towards north east…u must have seen some flight following the similar path…

i hope u understood it…sorry for my rugged answer…

Did you accidentally hit new topic? :smiley:

LOL yeah I think to my thread…

I’m 100% sure this plane did not take off from Vegas, the contrail was very very long and he was way up there. I see planes take off and turn 180’s all the time, this one was already at level flight…