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Old Oct 31, 2009 | 6:30 pm
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Originally Posted by The Bahumba
I was recently on a UA 757 from JFK to SFO. While over the rockies we encountered some moderate turbulence where the plane got banged around for about 15 seconds. Listening on the ATC channel I heard the pilot report to ATC that we encountered a minus 18 and a plus 10. I believe he was refering to the turbulence. Anyone know what he was actully refering to?
Not 100% sure, but that might have referred to loss/gain of indicated airspeed in kts. If the aircraft encountered an area of shifting wind direction both could happen in sequence.
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