New Flight Deck Apps Help Pilots Avoid Turbulence

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Using inputs from onboard sensors, uplinked weather or cross-linked surveillance details from nearby aircraft, researchers are creating software tools that will offer pilots the tactical guidance to circumvent convective turbulence or potentially dangerous wake vortices. This will be made possible...

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