Motorola,
Today there is virtually nothing we can add to the aviation culture, when it comes to thunderstorms, windshear, hail strikes etc...
The problem is no longer
knowing what to do, but being willing to apply those good basic principles we know very well.
The major problem is with weak captains unable to resist commercial pressures.
If the French captain sees the British one taking off out of BKK with the same airplane, will he be strong enough to say "NEGATIVE, park it. We go later."?
Another big issue is the loss of face problem.
Come on, are you really scared of a few bumps? That's not the end of the world, after all, and we surely don't want to be overzealous!
Until the day fleet captains will not
sincerely shake your hand for your diversion/huge delay, we'll continue to have pilots having a hard time resisting commercial pressures and loss of face risks.
LEM