Turbulence Chicago – Denver
Today: reading the sky…
1,426 km, about 2 h 04 in the air. The flight passes over the Great Lakes, then over the Great Plains, then over the Rockies. Great Plains thunderstorms, mostly on summer evenings, cause bumps; pilots fly around them.
Reading the winds…
The briefing, the evening before
The evening before, by email, updated.
One email, the day before the flight. Nothing else.