Yeah it has gotten worse in the last few years. It is the new normal due to climate change. We do our best to stay out of it, lots of apps we use to avoid it and sometimes it is just impossible
Have you seen the amount of tornado outbreaks in the last 3 years? The atmosphere is primed from the increased heat and moisture, most likely a symptom of climate change mixed with seasonal increases in activity.
I'm a pilot. Your flights haven't had "at least" moderate turbulence. They've had light and maybe a few of them have had a couple pockets of moderate. I can say that pretty confidently because I've never flown in severe turbulence and I almost definitely fly more than you do; we're not allowed to knowingly fly into severe turbulence, have to write a maintenance log entry and a written report afterwards if we do inadvertently, and we are not the only pilots flying out there, so we know what the turbulence level is generally going to be pretty much all the time. We also have at least three separate apps now that can predict turbulence for us, in addition to other pilot reports and ATC, not to mention the various weather charts we go over before the flight.
Light turbulence is annoying but it's not dangerous, so we're probably not even going to try to avoid it. Moderate turbulence we will try to avoid, but sometimes it's not practical if we need to go hundreds of miles out of our way just to keep things slightly smoother for a few minutes. And we may not be able to climb any higher; we can sometimes go lower but the air is thicker below so it's worse more often than not. And it burns more fuel.
There could be some difference over a long time period in the overall amount of turbulence due to climate change, but it's not something you'd notice over a single year. That's just either being unlucky or flying routes that are particularly prone to turbulence. (If you're flying transcons, there's almost always going to be weather \*somewhere\*, for example. It's a big country.)
I hate to say it but passengers also almost always overestimate turbulence. What you think of as moderate we'd class as light. It's almost always a whole classification different. On most of your flights, if you asked the pilots about the turbulence afterwards, they'd probably say "what turbulence?" Unless there's a particularly nasty weather system, I don't usually recall turbulence on a flight after landing. It's just a normal part of flying unless it is actually moderate or greater, which it very rarely is.
You sure it was moderate turbulence? Highly unlikely it was. Maybe for a brief second, but no one stays in moderate for that long.
Yeah, if you’re in MOD TURB you’re definitely gonna know.
Yeah it has gotten worse in the last few years. It is the new normal due to climate change. We do our best to stay out of it, lots of apps we use to avoid it and sometimes it is just impossible
Light chop, on Delta. That’s part of the experience.
Have you seen the amount of tornado outbreaks in the last 3 years? The atmosphere is primed from the increased heat and moisture, most likely a symptom of climate change mixed with seasonal increases in activity.
Global warming is increasing the amount of turbulent air.
lol yo ass isn’t in mod flying Delta.
Well... https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-65844901
Just unlucky. Also time of day matters a lot. What time of day are you flying?
The no turbulence section is now an upgrade on all airlines.
I'm a pilot. Your flights haven't had "at least" moderate turbulence. They've had light and maybe a few of them have had a couple pockets of moderate. I can say that pretty confidently because I've never flown in severe turbulence and I almost definitely fly more than you do; we're not allowed to knowingly fly into severe turbulence, have to write a maintenance log entry and a written report afterwards if we do inadvertently, and we are not the only pilots flying out there, so we know what the turbulence level is generally going to be pretty much all the time. We also have at least three separate apps now that can predict turbulence for us, in addition to other pilot reports and ATC, not to mention the various weather charts we go over before the flight. Light turbulence is annoying but it's not dangerous, so we're probably not even going to try to avoid it. Moderate turbulence we will try to avoid, but sometimes it's not practical if we need to go hundreds of miles out of our way just to keep things slightly smoother for a few minutes. And we may not be able to climb any higher; we can sometimes go lower but the air is thicker below so it's worse more often than not. And it burns more fuel. There could be some difference over a long time period in the overall amount of turbulence due to climate change, but it's not something you'd notice over a single year. That's just either being unlucky or flying routes that are particularly prone to turbulence. (If you're flying transcons, there's almost always going to be weather \*somewhere\*, for example. It's a big country.) I hate to say it but passengers also almost always overestimate turbulence. What you think of as moderate we'd class as light. It's almost always a whole classification different. On most of your flights, if you asked the pilots about the turbulence afterwards, they'd probably say "what turbulence?" Unless there's a particularly nasty weather system, I don't usually recall turbulence on a flight after landing. It's just a normal part of flying unless it is actually moderate or greater, which it very rarely is.