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Are flights in fast jet streams more dangerous?
This article from Not the Bee (note that this is a right-wing site, and the article includes a paragraph making fun of diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, so don't click the link if that ...
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Which countries use qfe field pressure?
I heard that acrobatic flight, Russians, Americans use qfe but is it always the case?
Also why doesn't everyone use it?
Isn't qfe field pressure better than qnh local pressure...
Does a pilot ever use ...
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Do airliners get substantially different weather briefings from the rest of us?
Southwest Airlines flights were delayed and cancelled this week due to an outage in their third-party weather provider. I understand if they have a streamlined business process for getting weather ...
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How to get an accurate time of arrival to the en-route alternate airport during flight planning?
I was thinking about accurate criteria of selecting en-route alternate (ERA) weather from ground (planning stage) especially for ERA 3% contingency flight plan.
As we all know we should care about one ...
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When do pilots facing bad weather turn back (U-turn)?
Passenger aircraft are not supposed to cross red areas on the weather radar. But what if the weather system is too large to circumnavigate and red areas inside the system are too large/prevalent to ...
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How do pilots decide whether to circumnavigate bad weather?
How does an airline pilot decide in the air whether to circumnavigate or fly through bad weather visibly looming ahead and/or displayed on the weather radar ?
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Did these weather conditions require the airline to cancel a flight? [duplicate]
[I do not believe this question duplicates a previous question, which involves different conditions and circumstances]
I'm interested in the airline's response to a query of mine about why a flight ...
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How do airlines handle SIGMETS?
In general, what is the action taken by airlines when presented with a SIGMET in the projected route. Will they go around it, cancel the flight prior to takeoff, or simply fly thought it anyway?
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Why was my flight cancelled due to bad weather while other flights were not?
I'm stuck in Frankfurt. I missed my connection due to a delay. I was rebooked, but this new flight was also cancelled due to bad weather.
About 30 percent of all flights were cancelled today. ...
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What does this A320 FCTM quote about cold weather and non-precision approaches mean? [closed]
Can someone explain this paragraph from the A320 FCTM about minimum temperatures for non-precision approaches? I can't understand it.
COLD WEATHER OPERATIONS For all Non Precision Approaches, there ...
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Is the weather radar on and active during the whole flight?
The title says it all: Do airline pilots leave the aircraft's weather radar on at all times during the flight and display the data on one or both of the Navigation Displays, or only if clouds/ weather ...
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What is the strongest jetstream ever encountered in commercial flight?
Jet-streams are high-altitude winds which flow from west to east. They can be provide a very strong tailwind or headwind depending on which direction the aircraft is going.
What is the historic ...
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Would an airliner be allowed to take off in snow?
Im going to fly to Tucson tommorow. The weather is telling me its going to snow in Denver. So would snow cause a delay or are airliners allowed to take off in this kind of weather?
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Can someone explain Exemption 3585?
Exemption 3585 allows 121 carriers (and perhaps others) to dispatch to destinations in certain cases with weather below minimums.
What are the forecast weather minimums to be dispatched under ...
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