Safer air travel: Existing navigation data can help pilots avoid turbulence
Friday, August 12, 2016 - 08:01
in Physics & Chemistry
Detecting turbulence remains the Achilles' heel of modern-day aviation. The reports submitted by pilots, subjective and often very inaccurate, are the least expensive and the most frequently used method for trying to predict where it will occur. Scientists have now demonstrated that turbulence can be detected in a much faster and more precise way, using data already routinely broadcast by the aircraft operated by commercial airlines.