What's Up With This Guy?

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N721SJ

Don’t think I got the permalink, dami. :blush:

flightaware.com/live/flight/N721 … /KDAB/KHEG

Here you go Will - it’s always listed on the bottom of the screen you posted - beside the date of the flight you’re looking at. That has to be some kind of training or something.

And not to hijack this thread, but what does it mean when on a flight plan, instead of the origin being an airport, it’s a letter/number combination - like “BAC460060” or something? What does that mean? Is that a number generated for origins when the flight plan is filed after the plane is already in flight? I saw one like that yesterday and that was the only thing I could come up with.

It’s a navaid place a radial and distance

Obviously a training flight of some sort. Looks like IFR training to me. A bunch of air work followed by a holding pattern at the end. Probably canceled IFR after the hold and returned VFR.

As for the odd letter/number combination, I believe it’s a radial and distance from a VOR. For example, " LAX270050 " would be the LAX VOR 270 degree radial at 50 nm.