Delta 56 Severe Turbulence
07-31-2025 | 04:07 PM
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Throughout my career, not just at Delta, I've always thought that there are about one third of pilots who do not take weather seriously enough. They act like you score points or something by deviating as less as possible. Its the type who's answer to everything at all times is "**shrug** we'll pick our way through."
There are also pilots who just aren't paying attention and flying with the radar off.
There are also pilots who just aren't paying attention and flying with the radar off.
07-31-2025 | 05:13 PM
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No passengers required hospitalization. All were treated and released. Does seem odd the flight attendants were up and doing the service given the conditions.
07-31-2025 | 05:29 PM
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Throughout my career, not just at Delta, I've always thought that there are about one third of pilots who do not take weather seriously enough. They act like you score points or something by deviating as less as possible. Its the type who's answer to everything at all times is "**shrug** we'll pick our way through."
A common thing I have seen with those pilots is failing to take the winds into account. When they are going between cells, they try to go right in the middle of them. I would rather be 20 miles away from the downwind cell and 10 miles from the upwind cell rather than 15 miles from both.
07-31-2025 | 06:28 PM
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I have flown with plenty of people who are scared of anything on the radar. I recently flew with an FO who wanted to clear a cell by 80 miles! Perhaps it was years of flying on the east coast with restricted airspace, but sometimes you do need to pick your way through a line of weather stretching from the Gulf to the Great Lakes. Not all radar returns are convective cells, and it does take some experience.
A common thing I have seen with those pilots is failing to take the winds into account. When they are going between cells, they try to go right in the middle of them. I would rather be 20 miles away from the downwind cell and 10 miles from the upwind cell rather than 15 miles from both.
A common thing I have seen with those pilots is failing to take the winds into account. When they are going between cells, they try to go right in the middle of them. I would rather be 20 miles away from the downwind cell and 10 miles from the upwind cell rather than 15 miles from both.
07-31-2025 | 06:41 PM
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Throughout my career, not just at Delta, I've always thought that there are about one third of pilots who do not take weather seriously enough. They act like you score points or something by deviating as less as possible. Its the type who's answer to everything at all times is "**shrug** we'll pick our way through."
There are also pilots who just aren't paying attention and flying with the radar off.
There are also pilots who just aren't paying attention and flying with the radar off.
07-31-2025 | 07:13 PM
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A common thing I have seen with those pilots is failing to take the winds into account. When they are going between cells, they try to go right in the middle of them. I would rather be 20 miles away from the downwind cell and 10 miles from the upwind cell rather than 15 miles from both.
Regardless, agree weather avoidance certainly has been minimized as others have said for whatever reasons in many circles of aviation. Glad there’s at least some critical thought application out there. I flew older aircraft with attenuation problems and flying right down the middle of a gap could literally blow up in your face.
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07-31-2025 | 07:14 PM
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Maybe, or could be any number of other things. It amazes me how people think they have enough information.
07-31-2025 | 08:34 PM
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Maybe they weren't told to sit. It appears the crew didn't deviate around the wx at all so maybe they didn't feel the conditions warranted the FAs to be seated. Pax account of what happened said it was all of a sudden.
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