CONFiture said:
Still trying to figure out why the BEA did omit the tracks of IB6024 and LH507 ?!
They have crossed the full red too, but as HN39 wrote much earlier : always keep in mind that the big systems seen by satellites don't necessarily show up like that on an aircraft's weather radar.
As a curious SLF, I wondered if satellite images of weather systems might be useful to pilots, as a supplement to what they can get from their own weather radars? Would it be prohibitive in terms of bandwith to download a localised image every couple of minutes? Or do the weather satellites track in a way that wouldn't be useful?
As a passenger, it would alarm me a little to know that the pilots were trying to pick their way through a maze with only an educated guess as to the layout.