Originally Posted by Smooth at FL450 (Post 2675489)

Not at all. At the moment the decision is made not to decice, the exact conditions/circumstances are known. And the crew has options if the weather changes before takeoff.

The same can’t be said about he decision to overfly a hurricane (you’re not there yet) and your options are greatly reduced if things go downhill while over it.

Originally Posted by grnclvrs (Post 2676609)

I guess I better not fly over mountains or water from now on.:rolleyes:

Originally Posted by Jetpipe30 (Post 2675506)

As they say, “beauty is in the eye of the beholder,” -or in this case danger. Also, if things were to go wrong, how is this any different than any other thunderstorm or significant weather event that pilots navigate through on a Dailey basis? The answer is, it isn’t. To an untrained eye you could pull up at least 5 screenshots on any given day where You can see an airline doing something exceedingly dangerous, but in all reality they are perfectly safe. Either you lack aviation knowledge or you are trying to make something out of nothing. I’m willing to bet both. This “event” has no basis for dialog beyond a normal everyday flight. But feel free to over exaggerate anything and everything that comes from social media, it seems to be the popular thing to do these days.


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Originally Posted by Smooth at FL450 (Post 2676789)

Well if you haven’t considered SE drift down, then you probably shouldn’t

Originally Posted by AvPilot (Post 2676882)

Nailed in on the head! Smooth is clearly not an airline pilot. Or maybe an incompetent one if that.



You realize driftdown is calculated for every flight? It's even on the first page of our release lol. I would also venture to guess, that data is near the first page of the release for every airline in the U.S.

Good for you though for thinking you know some trade secret that the rest of us are unaware of lol.

Originally Posted by 450knotOffice (Post 2676891)

Driftdown INTO the storm from the top, numbnuts. Not a terrain issue in this case.

Originally Posted by grnclvrs (Post 2676609)

I guess I better not fly over mountains or water from now on.:rolleyes:

Originally Posted by Smooth at FL450 (Post 2676789)

Well if you haven’t considered SE drift down, then you probably shouldn’t

Originally Posted by AvPilot (Post 2676897)

Scroll two posts up. Smooth was making a point about not flying over mountains without drift down data.

Originally Posted by 450knotOffice (Post 2676891)

Driftdown INTO the storm from the top, numbnuts. Not a terrain issue in this case.