48 – Planning Around Turbulence

Posted on February 28, 2019 by flyingandlife

News:
- Injury on CPZ flight
  - https://www.ajc.com/news/national/severe-turbulence-injures-five-seattle-bound-flight/Xmoo87Rp7RXMH9b5mjp3nK
- Southwest maintenance issues
- Airbus to stop making the A380
  - https://www.bloombergquint.com/business/airbus-buries-a380-flagship-drawing-curtain-on-jumbo-jet-era#gs.N45rfbvA
- Pakistan Airspace Closed
  - https://ops.group/blog/pakistan-india/
- Atlas Air accident in Houston
  - https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/25/atlas-air-amazon-air-flight-3591-investigation-begins-into-deadly-cargo-jet-crash.html
  - Podcasting on a plane 43
    - https://www.podcastingonaplane.com/podcast/2019/2/25/episode-043-giant-3591
    - Go fund me- https://www.gofundme.com/sean-archuletas-family

Topic: Turbulence and flight planning
- Types of Turbulence
  - https://www.faa.gov/documentLibrary/media/Advisory_Circular/AC_00-6B.pdf

tools used to predict turbulence
- Prog charts
- GTG – Graphical Turbulence Guidance
- https://www.aviationweather.gov/gfa
Tools to tell us when there is reported turbulence
- Pireps
- Sigmets
- Airmets

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