Hi Robert,
I found your question fascinating and thought I would research it a bit further. I think many of us don't realize how accurate
Flight sim can be at times, and forget to take into account the effect of the wind on our flightplan, myself included.
I have had a few similar incidents but not quite as serious as yours. Once did a flight from YHZ to YUL at 35000, and half way
through was wondering why it was taking so long. So I looked into my activesky settings and found I was battling a 100kt headwind.
Dropped down 10000 ft and I was on my way again.
I found some historical jetstream maps of the eastern pacific for May 16 2014 (I presume that the shocking nature of the outcome
of your flight caused you to post immedeatley) and this is what I found:
http://virga.sfsu.edu/archive/jetstream ... c_anal.gifI would have to say you ran into some wicked headwinds.
for current east pacific wind charts head here:
http://squall.sfsu.edu/crws/jetstream.htmlArchived maps:
http://squall.sfsu.edu/crws/archive/jet_pac_arch.htmlRegards,