Quick flights over t'pond tonight
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Quick flights over t'pond tonight
Looking at the Sig Wx charts for tonight, mid Atlantic winds reach 220kts - must be close on a record and could see some quick, nigh on record, flight times. Might be a bit bumpy though....
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I was thinking the same thing. There is a big low and one hell of a storm forecast for southern/central UK tommorow inbound of a SSW direction.
I have ridden 200kts winds on the North Atlantic eastbound on a BA B744 3x Septembers ago and it aint pleasent...believe me.
I have ridden 200kts winds on the North Atlantic eastbound on a BA B744 3x Septembers ago and it aint pleasent...believe me.
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Personally, I've found the turbulence can be a very variable factor - many has been the time I've been sat in the core of a jetstream and its been as smooth as a baby's ..... - get to the edges of the core where the shear is at its greatest - usually - and it can be as rough as hell, as it can be where the core does big changes of direction.
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I came back SFO to LHR last Friday/Saturday, and the moving map was showing over 700, and up to 731 "mph" (knots?) ground speed for a while between Canada and Greenland. The captain has mentioned that they were expecting strong tailwinds... Later in the flight we were back to the usual 560-580 range.
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I have ridden 200kts winds on the North Atlantic eastbound on a BA B744 3x Septembers ago and it aint pleasent...believe me.
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Hobie, I said the same thing to myself after a similar experience, ie. avoid during Sept/Oct/Nov periods due to jetstreams & autumn depressions. It is not pleasent if you are on the edge of it. Surprising how something like a B744 gets buffeted around.
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Ive crossed the North Atlantic in March for the last couple of years and havn't had any really bad flights.
The roughest place we found was just as you pass the Nova Scotia/New Foundland area but then the rest of the flight was smooth.
Nova Scotia always seems to be the worst place on the trip for most months of the the year (For us atleast). October this year we flew to Orlando and ran into the remnants of a Hurricane in the same area, cloud up to FL380 and it was bumpy as hell for a while
Matt.
The roughest place we found was just as you pass the Nova Scotia/New Foundland area but then the rest of the flight was smooth.
Nova Scotia always seems to be the worst place on the trip for most months of the the year (For us atleast). October this year we flew to Orlando and ran into the remnants of a Hurricane in the same area, cloud up to FL380 and it was bumpy as hell for a while
Matt.
