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Old Nov 4, 2009 | 7:27 am
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GreatChecko
 
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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?
That would be in reference to an airspeed loss of 18 knots and a gain of 10 knots. Pretty classic example of mountain wave turbulence.

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