Originally Posted by mogulskiir
I flew through DEN yesterday afternoon and we had some real bad turbulence. It was the first time I had ever heard planes reporting severe turbulence on CH 9 before. The pilot asked just before landing if there were any reports of wind shear. On my connecting flight we had to go way out of the way to avoid the weather. I heard it was just as bad today also. My friends flight got diverted to COS.
Yeah, last night was pretty ugly. Came in from PHX around 5:30pm, and we did a few circles before being one of the first to come down. Not too bad for us, but I did hear two other flights request emergency diversions to COS.
Of course, it was all for naught, since we spent over an hour on the ground because our DEN-BWI pilot turned down 3-4 slots from the tower because he wasn't comfortable with conditions. He wasn't the only one - and I'll take safe over sorry any day.