Just a little rain

[BradB]

The article and twitter responses made me laugh.  Dave L., I hope this isn't you.  

 

Brad. 

 

http://www.post-gazette.com/news/transportation/2017/09/06/Delta-431-pilot-flies-Boeing-into-Hurricane-Irma-Twitter-freaks-out/stories/201709060140

[tigers2007]

About 10yrs ago I lived in a condo that was directly under the approach path near KYIP. I remember watching FlightAware one stormy night and witnessed this crazy dude in a Mooney (I think the airline code was "Fast Air") zipping around storm cells. I could actually hear that aircraft flying overhead on its approach into KYIP. I was blown away how this guy would steer around these tiny cells, at NIGHT, with absolute precision.


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[Jeff_S]

Just another example of the havoc that social media has wrought on society. Let's turn every know-it-all Twitter jerkwad into an expert commentator on what's safe to do in an airplane...or a car, or a boat, or politics, or anything else they feel compelled to critique. Can you tell I'm not a fan?

[MB65E]

HA! There is not a significant amount of vertical development in a hurracain. NOAA, NASA, and some military C130s do it all the time. Just a little rain is true. Now I wouldn't do it in anything piston driven, possibly even twin engine jet. Noaa's P-3s Miss Piggy and Kermit have about 1/4 inch of PRC slobbered on all of their leading edges. They have a really neat program.

Now how fast was Deltas the turn to depart!! Lol.

-Matt

[bradp]

40 minute turn and the track exiting the storm was cool - they went straight north to slight NNE prior to turning northwest- flying between two rain bands like flying up a valley. 

I also came to the sad conclusion that - why does every idiot in the word think they have a valuable opinion - when reading that twitter stiff.  Why can't folks just admit they have not a clue and leave it at that.