An encounter with severe weather is being discussed with the latest Malaysia incident (and is big with AF 447).
The standard talking point is that airliners cruise above 'all' weather. Of course, weather buffs know that extreme thunderstorms can exceed 40,000 feet.
Of course, for that, the standard airliner talking point is that they can easily deviate around monster storms.
Another standard talking point is that sensitive, on-board radar allows a lot of perfectly safe penetrations with no real risk...through holes that are not evident on the less-sensitive Weather Channel.com stuff....
I guess this leaves the following questions: Are there some mega big storms over there that are so wide (and high) that you can't practically get around them?
I was going to ask our professional pilots for their "stories of their worst weather encounters"- but I remember- this subject has come up before and the pilots on this forum NEVER encounter anything worse than light rain showers (even though statistics show a much higher rate when the pilots NOT on this forum are included).
The standard talking point is that airliners cruise above 'all' weather. Of course, weather buffs know that extreme thunderstorms can exceed 40,000 feet.
Of course, for that, the standard airliner talking point is that they can easily deviate around monster storms.
Another standard talking point is that sensitive, on-board radar allows a lot of perfectly safe penetrations with no real risk...through holes that are not evident on the less-sensitive Weather Channel.com stuff....
I guess this leaves the following questions: Are there some mega big storms over there that are so wide (and high) that you can't practically get around them?
I was going to ask our professional pilots for their "stories of their worst weather encounters"- but I remember- this subject has come up before and the pilots on this forum NEVER encounter anything worse than light rain showers (even though statistics show a much higher rate when the pilots NOT on this forum are included).
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