Every flight I go on I check Turbli before I do it to check out how much turbulence there will be (nervous flyer). Almost every single time I have checked it, it ends up being absurdly accurate. Then today when I was on a flight the pilot said that for the next 4 minutes there will be severe turbulence but after it should be smooth sailing. I looked at the clock and he was exactly right. How did he know? What instruments show this and how do they work?
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Back before we had all the technology we have now, mid 90’s, I used to have to request NoTAM’s, Notice to Air Men, which included all this type of data. You used to go to the airport ops room and print off the relevant report for your flight path or you could request via TELEX, which was not as quick.
These NOTAM reports would include any data that would be relevant to the flight path which would have been collated by the Aviation Authority.
I guess they’ve an app for that now!
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