Patrick Smith writes an excellent column on Salon.com, and recently, two excellent columns were written on Turbulence.? See this column on turbulence and another on wake turbulence.
Written by tb_neg on November 10th, 2006 with
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Jean
#2.
November 16th, 2006, at 7:10 PM.
I just discovered your website last night while trying to decide whether to fly from Baltimore to Charlotte today. Knowing a severe line of storms was going to pass through the southeast (including tornados), I searched for a website with information on turbulence. Having this information at hand made it very easy to justify not getting on that plane this morning. I am not a nervous flyer and am married to a former 727 pilot, but every once in a while I get the feeling that the destination might not be worth the agony of the voyage. Glad I found you!
tb_neg
#3.
November 16th, 2006, at 7:14 PM.
Welcome new visitors! Please tell all your friends about the site.
Phil
#4.
November 22nd, 2006, at 4:22 PM.
I just found this website over 5 months ago. I am flying out of Boston on Thanksgiving morning in the middle of a rain/wind storm. This site is fantastic, however it really sinks in how turbluent my flight is going to be aftering looking at all these maps. I can’t cancel the trip, so it looks like I’m going to be saying a prayer and hanging on to my seat. If anyone has been traveling today (Wednesday, November 22) in the Northeast and can give some feedback about the turbulence they experienced, I would appreciate it.
Best,
Phil
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Jon
#1. November 11th, 2006, at 12:15 AM.
Yah, I totally know that left/right brain thing he is talking about…
No matter what anyone can tell me, I always get white knuckled during turbulence. I know I would be perfectly OK if I was in the cockpit, but it is the sitting the back that gets me. Same thing that I do when I hit the ‘imaginary’ break pedal in the car when I am not driving.
Maybe this is a sign I need to go get private license and then I can fly the really dangerous planes!