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JAWS
Saw this first on KTUU and read it on ADN tonight:
http://www.adn.com/2012/10/07/265325...void-bump.html
Originally Posted by adn.com
JUNEAU, Alaska — Sam Gottstein has had some memorable flights, but nothing like the nail-biter coming into Alaska's capital city earlier this year.
The flight between Anchorage and Juneau was uneventful until the final descent, he said, when visibility was cut to almost nothing and the plane shook. "There was definitely a collective sigh of relief after we successfully landed, and I feel as if a number of the passengers felt like we bonded together over it," Gottstein said. It is experiences such as this that aviation officials hope to avoid, or at least limit, with a new system that alerts pilots to pockets of turbulence and highlights corridors of smoother air. The airport, which is set among mountains with a channel and glacier nearby, is known for its wind shears and white-knuckle landings. It is the only U.S. airport to have the federally sanctioned turbulence-detection technology, known as the Juneau Airport Wind System, or JAWS. </snip> |
JAWS
JAWS has been around for years so I wonder what the new feature is.
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Per KINY:
Pilots get new tool to avoid bumpy flights in Juneau BECKY BOHRER,Associated Press JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A new tool for Juneau's airport is intended to avoid, or at least limit, rocky landings and takeoffs. The system alerts pilots to pockets of turbulence and highlights corridors of smoother air. The airport, which is set among mountains, with a channel and glacier nearby, is known for its wind shears and white-knuckle landings. Officials say it is currently the only U.S. airport to have the federally sanctioned turbulence-detection technology, known as the Juneau Airport Wind System, or JAWS. Though the system was formally commissioned by the Federal Aviation Administration this summer, a prototype developed by the National Center for Atmospheric Research has been operating for more than a decade, providing wind information for the carrier and, more recently, alerts. As well as some great information on this page: http://www.ral.ucar.edu/projects/juneau/ |
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