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Old 11th Sep 2016, 21:29
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DaveReidUK
 
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Originally Posted by PAXboy
Do the aviators agree with this:
Have you experienced an increase in turbulence?
I suspect that most pilots' experience of CAT is so infrequent as to make it difficult for an individual to detect a trend, presumably why the research didn't use anecdotal evidemce but aggregated data from many thousands of flights.

Originally Posted by MaverickPrime
With an increase in the number of people and aircraft flying you could assume that the number of turbulence incidents would, consequently, be directly proportional.
Except that the data and modelling shows that to be an incorrect assumption, which is rather the point:

https://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/arep/...lliams_CAT.pdf
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