Originally Posted by
PiperCameron
How about 'brake failure because we left the aircraft parked on the grass'?? As in: 'It was okay last year, but this year water was up to the axles due global warming'?
Weather patterns should never 'catch out' a pilot because they should be using all information to hand to make proper planning decisions before ever leaving the ground. After all, there is far far more weather information available to today's pilot than there ever was even at the start of this century, let alone last, and for as long as I can remember, if there's a storm brewing it's never been good practice to fly into it just to see how bad it is.
Our weather modelling, and forecasting, that pilots rely on to make decisions about fuel and tracking is based on stable predictable weather patterns. If Climate change is rapid, as what is being touted, then those patterns will become less predictable. If predictability is a problem, then forecasting is an issue, and if the forecasts are wrong then a pilot could depart with not enough fuel to safely get to a destination and/or alternate. There is also the issue that an IFR pilot can fly blindly into unforecast conditions that are beyond the aircraft capabilities. Because if it's not on the forecast, then how will you know it's there, especially if flying through cloud.
We currently live in a very stable world, politics, climate change and everything else change very slowly and predictably at the moment, everything is sorta beige riding the fence. It is hard to fathom instability in anything from weather to real unstable geopolitics, and true world war. Trumpism really showed us how much we had become used to a certain way the world was going, and he rocked it, making a lot of people upset, but compared to other times in history, even Trumps games are mild.
BTW I'm not arguing what will or won't happen, just how a scenario could be blamed on such.