Delta 56 Severe Turbulence
08-01-2025 | 02:28 AM
#21
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Yeah..the people on here casting judgment from a radar snapshot from flightaware which is rarely accurate at the time are honestly worse than the media. Disappointing, but expected these days I guess.
08-01-2025 | 03:13 AM
#22
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Turbulence does hit all of a sudden when you penetrate a storm cell… 😉
08-01-2025 | 03:21 AM
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It would also often be a battle with the flight attendants who wanted to be up at 14,000 feet starting the service when you had a forecast for mountain wave and turbulence. I would hold them down until we cleared the Rockies but it created friction. More than once I had flight attendants get up when I told them to stay seated until I called them.
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08-01-2025 | 03:36 AM
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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.
08-01-2025 | 04:36 AM
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I’ve looked back at my own flights on FlightAware where I’ve had to deviate around weather. I’ve found the depicted route vs depicted weather to not jive most of the time. I put very little faith the image the original poster uploaded is accurate.
08-01-2025 | 04:52 AM
#26
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Ok, but Occam’s razor. Two options, either they flew through a cell or there was sudden extreme CAT. When there are cells in the vicinity I know what my money is on.
08-01-2025 | 04:58 AM
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I have had the radar on the A330-900 fail passive so to speak and simply not paint anything.
It would also often be a battle with the flight attendants who wanted to be up at 14,000 feet starting the service when you had a forecast for mountain wave and turbulence. I would hold them down until we cleared the Rockies but it created friction. More than once I had flight attendants get up when I told them to stay seated until I called them.
It would also often be a battle with the flight attendants who wanted to be up at 14,000 feet starting the service when you had a forecast for mountain wave and turbulence. I would hold them down until we cleared the Rockies but it created friction. More than once I had flight attendants get up when I told them to stay seated until I called them.
08-01-2025 | 05:33 AM
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Couple of questions/thoughts. Were they at least 5000' above the tops? Am I the only one that will deviate 1NM for every knot of wind, when downwind? Who would've been on break on a 3 man crew at this point? Does the Capt ever take first break? Does anyone else check the gain, go manual gain to 100% to get a look? I have always felt that our training on radar usage was weak.
08-01-2025 | 05:34 AM
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yes but in this instance the pictures of the galley and cabin sure are consistent with the picture from Flight Radar flying directly through a cell…
if it walks like a duck, and talks like a duck…
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