Sorry to digress here but I have had a few TCAS RAs when departing out of Dulles due to some nincompoops deviating around some puffs of cumulus and strato-cumulus. The stupid present day practice to excessively focus on " passenger comfort " is getting more and more ridiculous!
Unless it is a towering cumulus or cumulonimbus, just man up and go through for some nice rocking massage instead of clogging the airwaves with all kinds of heading requests, deviation requests and some triggering TCAS RAs with their own maneuvers.
Last edited by Chuck Canuck; 3rd Aug 2012 at 18:06.