TRANSATLANTIC JETSTREAMS e/bound
North Atlantic jetstreams running high speed currently south easterly direction.
Anyone out there have interesting stories about this? 170mph tailwinds getting a good buffet and moderate/severe chop at FL350-FL370 this weekend. People down the back complaining and cabin crew getting nervous. |
Keep the bean counters happy - all that fuel saving.
Until of course they try to go westbound. Then they moan like hell. |
Just flew YUL-CDG last night and we landed at CDG about 30 minutes early.
Ground speed at FL380 was, per the airshow display (hey I`m just SLF!) between 1100-1200 km/h for most of the flight |
Yeah - I managed 564 kts G/S today - my fastest ever!!
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Impressive fast crossings are all very well. However, a number of aircraft were asking to "dogleg" within the London FIR to delay their approach as they were too early for their stands and other "stuff".
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Lots of chop and bouncing coming back from UVF to LGW on the 12th on Virgin 744 at FL380. Good groundspeed too, 600Kts+
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that situation is not unheard of at high level flights.
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