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Old Apr 26, 2019, 4:57 pm
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Originally Posted by jdrtravel
Apparently it should be more stable with some type of new technology to avoid turbulence, see my post above.
Don’t be fooled. Each airline has their own proprietary weather products. There’s no no new technology to avoid turbulence, only better weather predicting products and improved communication between dispatch and other aircraft.

United it’s called TAPS, we can see automated turbulence reports from other aircraft that automatically pop up on our iPads. This is in addition to the other government and WSI provided weather data.

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