A Roadmap to the Bay Area’s Highways in the Sky

by telstarlogistics on October 31, 2008 · 6 comments

guest post by Todd Lappin (Telstar Logistics)

Roadmap to the Highways of the Sky

This is a clean version of an illuminating FAA graphic I saw recently on the wall at Moffett Federal Airfield down in Mountain View. It’s a guide to the air traffic routes used at airports around the San Francisco Bay Area — a roadmap of the highways in our skies.

I love it because it explains the patterns behind the air traffic I see jetting over San Francisco every day. It all seems kind of random from the ground, but thanks to this route plan, the flight paths now make a lot more sense.

This second graphic shows the southeast routes the jets use when the winds get funky:

Roadmap to the Highways of the Sky (Southeast Plan)

images via FAA

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