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Flying Through the Center of a Trough Should Have Been Uneventful

Flying Magazine

As we turned to intercept the localizer, the winds were 360 at 53 knots at 2,000 feet, according to our wind vector on the primary flight display. My first inclination was to proceed onto Charlotte at 4,000 feet, but I wasn’t sure of what was causing the rough air above.

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