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Turbulence surprised Air Canada pilots
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Looking at the Nav Canada forecast for Thursday used by pilots across Canada, Mark Benson, an instructor for Mount Royal College's aviation program, said there was no turbulence forecast anywhere in Western Canada.
"It would have been a surprise for the pilots," he said.
The forecast Thursday morning for northeastern Washington's skies, however, was a different story.
Mike Fries, a meteorologist for the U.S. National Weather Service's office in Spokane, Wash., says a plane travelling over northeastern Washington might well have encountered serious turbulence. more...
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January 11, 2008 at 11:55 am by ppeggy, 814 views, 1 comment
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at 15:18 on January 11th, 2008
ppeggy, thanks for posting this. Makes me wonder how Nav Canada's methods differ from the USNWS...this was obviously a huge oversight somehow--we all know that weather doesn't stop at the border. At least, Canadians know--my American cousins used to think it would start snowing as they hit the Canadian border to visit us when we were little.