Originally Posted by
Dawgfan6291
Did you read his post?
"Meanwhile our iPads kept showing red areas of turbulence nearly the entire ocean crossing."
Have any of you never stepped outside and its raining, you pull up the weather app on your phone and you see no rain on the radar? Or you see rain on the radar and its not raining?
Technology on this stuff has come a LONG way, but it still is far from perfect.
Oh and as pointed out, the US has become super sue happy. Get up if you want when the light is on but if something happens good luck getting a single cent out of the airline.
Of course, which is why I'm somewhat dumbfounded. If you're sitting there in 3 hours of light chop, at some point in that time period I may make the executive decision that we can turn the seat belt sign off for a bit given the actual ride does not match the forecast. A forecast is great, but they're quite often not very accurate and I would take into account the real world conditions as opposed to what was expected. If the iPad shows no icing and yet the airplane is icing up like a popsicle, do you leave the anti-ice off?