[VBprogrammer]

From the testimonials it seems this is used for tactical rather than strategic planning. Honestly, that would keep me up at night.

It's similar to problems which have been previously caused by a reliance on in cockpit weather data delivered by satellites. At worst it can be 15 minutes out of date and more than one eager light aircraft pilot has flown into the center of a storm cell which wasn't there 15 minutes ago - taking his family with him.

Its only turbulence but worst case scenario with turbulence is still pretty bad - injuries and even deaths are completely possible outcomes.

[oron]

Good comment! our algorithms take into account time of report as recorded by the aircraft so latency or offline aircraft is not an issue. Surprisingly most CAT phenomena is pretty stable and can stay in the same area for hours at time.

[VBprogrammer]

Thanks for responding. That is interesting. I guess you also have the advantage that current "state of care" is sharing a few radio messages with other aircraft with lots of subjective judgements.

[lawrenceduk]

Mostly mountain wave presumably?