Normally I wouldn't post so many pictures of one plane but that is all I took a picture for my weekly visit to the aluminum aviary. I had other fish to fry.
The Air France flight to Detroit originates at Charles De Gaulle Airport near Paris.
The flight leaves Paris at 3:50PM Central European Time which is two hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC or Greenwich Mean Time for you heathens) in the summer. That makes it five hours ahead of our time. So it leaves at roughly 11AM in Detroit.
The flight lands in Detroit at roughly 6PM. Which means that it is an eight hour flight.
During that time, the plane will climb to an altitude of 40,000 feet. It will reach at altitude at about a half hour into the flight.
It will start descending from that altitude with about an hour left in the flight. The plane will fly 4200 miles. It will fly over England and Scotland, just south of Iceland, touch the tip of Greenland and then over Canada. On its final approach, it will follow the north short of Lake Erie before flying over Lake St. Clair.
If you look at FlightAware it will show the route with all the waypoints. It's kind of neat if you're interested in that sort of thing.
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