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The great big "ask an airline pilot" thread!
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This is what we used yesterday, the first thing to do is check the date and time and the appropriate levels. Then have a look at your route and see what lies ahead of you.
You can see a number of ISOL EMBD CB 300/XXX, basically means isolated CBs embedded in other clouds with a max height of FL300 but the XXX isn't actually the lower level, it means that they are lower than the lowest level that the chart was based upon.
Around Italy you can see a Jetstream with black triangles and lines, each triangle is 50 kts. and each line 10, so you have a 130 jet stream. that area is surrounded by dashed lines and the number 4 is associated with that area, looking to the reference box, you can see area 4 has turbulence from 280-460.
If you look closely you can see individual letters, like Z, P, S.... these are actually city names, Zurich, Paris and Stockholm etc.
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This is what we used yesterday, the first thing to do is check the date and time and the appropriate levels. Then have a look at your route and see what lies ahead of you.
You can see a number of ISOL EMBD CB 300/XXX, basically means isolated CBs embedded in other clouds with a max height of FL300 but the XXX isn't actually the lower level, it means that they are lower than the lowest level that the chart was based upon.
Around Italy you can see a Jetstream with black triangles and lines, each triangle is 50 kts. and each line 10, so you have a 130 jet stream. that area is surrounded by dashed lines and the number 4 is associated with that area, looking to the reference box, you can see area 4 has turbulence from 280-460.
If you look closely you can see individual letters, like Z, P, S.... these are actually city names, Zurich, Paris and Stockholm etc.
Brilliant that's made that chart so much easier to read now!
Any idea what the name of that app is smurfjed?
, just hope you can confirm a few details:
[500] - There are various numbers of three figures in boxes around the chart, do these represent Tropopause levels?
Where can you determine areas of CAT? or is this made known via the detailed information using the reference numbers?
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Wx Charts by company called ProgAero....
[500] or similar is the Tropopause Level, if it has a H above the value, it means HIGH, the letter L stands for LOW.
Before the edit you asked about wind strength, the levels show where the wind is greater than 80 kts. with the maximum shown by the symbols.
Read the tiny text above the box with numbers, it is labelled CAT AREAS. So this indicates where you will encounter CAT.
Brilliant thanks to all of ye who helped, plenty of study now to understand this fully.
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Brilliant thanks to all of ye who helped, plenty of study now to understand this fully.
Cheers!
Just to add, the CAT areas shown are for forecast "moderate" or "moderate occasionally severe" turbulence. "Light" is not shown. It doesn't mean there will be turbulence, just conditions are indicative of turbulence.
The CB activity areas are ISOL, OCNL or FRQT. Without looking up the actual figures, that means CBs expected to cover <25%, 25-50%, or >50% of the indicated area. Or roughly something like that!0 -
eatmyshorts wrote: »Just to add, the CAT areas shown are for forecast "moderate" or "moderate occasionally severe" turbulence. "Light" is not shown. It doesn't mean there will be turbulence, just conditions are indicative of turbulence.
The CB activity areas are ISOL, OCNL or FRQT. Without looking up the actual figures, that means CBs expected to cover <25%, 25-50%, or >50% of the indicated area. Or roughly something like that!
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eatmyshorts wrote: »Or maybe the chart is a whole conspiracy lead by the US, the Met Office, the mujahadeen, Disney Corp and Kermit the Frog to fool us all......
Oops, wrong thread!!
Hahah, who knows maybe METARs contain a secondary meaning after all!
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About 4 feet physically to the left, but a million miles mentally.......
Now, i hope that my traveling in uniform on FR question makes sense
At least they have Velcro on the back so you can take them off ( if you wish).
Try these bad boys, sown onto my only descent bit of clothing. Had to get home from the wavy navy ASAP from Singapore to London then onto Shannon.
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I think that I should explain, to start with, for us, 4 stripes means that you are a captain, the star means that you are qualified on a jet aircraft rather than a piston.
I passed my check ride yesterday and got awarded the position of Captain. I will continue to fly the same type of aircraft that I flew as a First Officer, but from the left seat, not the right one, so this is the move of about 4 feet.
As a first officer, I was qualified to fly the aircraft, but while that means that I'm a contributing member of a team, the final decision wasn't mine, so if we had problems, I could just go sit in the cabin and play on the internet while the Captain had to coordinate the means of finding a solution.
But now, all of those decisions are mine., but that said, so are the perks.
I'm presently sitting in the first class cabin of a B777 in uniform as it is required to be allowed travel as an additional crew member.
From Manchester, I'm jumping on Ryanair to Dublin where I get to surprise my parents with my new uniform and position, hence the reason that I wanted to use the uniform.
Hope that this makes sense......
Just to add, that I totally covered up on Ryanair, but put all the bars, hat jacket back on in the baggage hall. The look on my fathers face was priceless 0 -
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