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CatmanV2 said:
Hi Mark! I was thinking about you earlier. How's it all going?

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Watching Crimewatch, again..? :D

It's all good: great - if manic - summer hols in Malaysia, then back to a maelstrom of work, basically. 'Twas my birthday at the weekend so kicked back somewhat.... You good?
 
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jerkmoans said:
Watching Crimewatch, again..? :D

It's all good: great - if manic - summer hols in Malaysia, then back to a maelstrom of work, basically. 'Twas my birthday at the weekend so kicked back somewhat.... You good?
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Not grumbling :) Just about to fly off to Cancun for a week. Happy birthday for last week. Hope the Parrot is still OK

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The weather down that way is pretty cr4p at the moment. I spent last week in Florida and it was overcast and rainy every day. I'm off to Cancun on Saturday night for a beer and I'm not expecting it to be any better. Mind you, it doesn't need to be as long as there isn't a hole in the bar roof!
 
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How is the flight over the atlantic? I get scared as with bad weather the plane will be going mad surely?
 
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dem maser said:
How is the flight over the atlantic? I get scared as with bad weather the plane will be going mad surely?
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Should be well above the weather Dem, personally I enjoy a choppy flight as they can be entertaining up to the point the stewardesses start flying about!

I have had a flight back from LA where they were in danger of going theoretically over Mach1 because of the jet stream speeds, took well over an hour and a half off the journey and we had to circle London for ages as Heathrow had exceeded it's night flight quota as a result and they wouldn't let us land!
 
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I'm sure there are sky jockeys that can explain it in better terms than me Dem but my understanding is that once they are above the cloud levels they refer to it as being above the weather something like > 15,000 ft...
 
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Turbulence is just pressure changes or 'holes' in the air so there is less to hold the aircraft up there so it drops till it finds something firmer; the bigger the holes the more severe the chop!
 
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2b1ask1 said:
I'm sure there are sky jockeys that can explain it in better terms than me Dem but my understanding is that once they are above the cloud levels they refer to it as being above the weather something like > 15,000 ft...
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Clouds go way up above 15,000 ft; some CBs (bangers) go up to, and occasionally above, 45,000. As the name suggests, clear air turbulence (CAT) happens away from, and above, clouds and is caused by pockets of air at differing speeds mixing and causing instability in the atmosphere. Really fast moving air manifests itself as a jetstream which is effectively a river of air which can travel at speeds of up to 200 mph. In the northern hemisphere, the jetstreams almost always move from west to east. So, when flying to the States you avoid them like the plague as they wreck your ground speed but coming home you try and ride those babies for as long as you can. However, you can experience CAT as you enter, and leave jetstreams, due to the 'shear' between fast and slow moving air. Sometimes you can fly 10 hours to or from Cancun and not feel a jolt and sometimes it's like galloping a horse drawn cart over Belgian pave. Still, it's an office with a nice view however lumpy it gets!
 
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