Old 03-13-2010 | 04:17 PM
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JoeyMeatballs
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Default How cautious are you guys with turbulence?

After having pretty miserable luck this winter and today, seems every pairing I encounter at the very least Moderate Turbulence. I have also noticed (more than I have) pilots reporting MOD-SEV turbulence and nobody thinking much of it. A few months ago I was riding in the back of a CHQ airplane and the F/A mentioned that she had just been informed by the pilots that we were going to be going through "Severe Turbulence", myself and my crew kinda looked at each other like.....Why?, turn this bad boy around. When we landed I looked at the NOAA page and saw the WHOLE entire area by BWI was reporting Severe Turbulence, and everyone kept on trucking......

Anyway the point is I have flown with some guys that think nothing of reports of MOD-SEV turbulence reports and keep on trucking at 320Kts.....

Just kinda thinking out loud but it makes me wonder when airlines cancel flights because of 2 inches of snow, yet there is never any mention of re-routes etc when we are dispatched through areas of MOD-SEV..............

rant over,
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