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"For turbulence prediction and awareness, I think there's no other tool that has the features and the accuracy of SkyPath". Captain Paul Stoeber shares what it means to fly with SkyPath. Knowing when turbulence is coming, you can plan, reroute, and protect your cabin. Fewer injury incidents. Smoother passenger experience. Better fuel planning on long-haul routes. Start your 30-day trial today

"It's the only tool out there that's going to give you a warning. For that reason, I think SkyPath is an invaluable tool." Joe Dickinson, Lead Captain on a G650 and Safety Manager, describing how turbulence mitigation changed after his flight department started using SkyPath. Live aircraft observations, ADS-B data, nowcasting, EDR, and PIREPs into a single view, giving pilots a warning so they can prepare before passengers feel a thing. See how your flight department can use SkyPath to protect passengers and crew. Start your 30-day trial.

Clear-air turbulence still doesn't show up on radar, doesn't appear in standard meteorological models, and gives no visual warning until you're in it. Thirty years in, that hasn't changed. A regional forecast can be completely accurate and still tell a crew almost nothing they can act on: rough air somewhere along a 300-mile corridor, but not whether it's at 35,000 feet or 37,000, or whether it starts in 20 minutes or two hours. The decisions that actually prevent injuries (altitude, heading, when to secure the cabin) happen in feet and minutes. In the latest article in Gulf Business, we discussed why the next flight can be bumpier than the last and what we're doing about it. SkyPath combines five layers of data: EDR, ADS-B VR, Nowcasting, Observations, and PIREPs. Together, they make the most accurate turbulence awareness platform in aviation today. More than 40,000 flights a day run on that network now. A five-year airline study found that using SkyPath's data cut turbulence-related injuries by 40-50%. It shows up in the fuel numbers too: airlines running on this data are recovering an estimated 0.5-1% of fleet fuel costs per aircraft every year. Read the full Gulf Business interview here: https://lnkd.in/empjqs2x

Beverley D'Silva wrote a comprehensive piece on turbulence for Ingenia, the Royal Academy of Engineering's magazine: how it forms, why clear-air turbulence is so hard to catch, what engineers are building to get ahead of it. Glad to have been part of it. One thing worth highlighting: most people think turbulence is one thing. It isn't. Clear-air, convective, mountain wave. Each forms differently, convective turbulence comes from storms, and is easier to catch since there is a visible marker, radar picks it up. Clear-air turbulence has none of that. No clouds, no radar signature, nothing to see. Often the first sign is the aircraft hitting it. To predict turbulence well, and catch all types, you need to combine classic physics, machine learning and real observations, over 40,000 users feeding data back into SkyPath models every day. That combination is what lets our forecast keep adapting as the climate changes and improve the results daily. Why does this matter so much? Prof. Paul Williams, who has spent years studying this at the University of Reading, expects severe turbulence worldwide to double or triple in the next few decades. The more accurate the forecast gets, the more that growth is something airlines can plan around instead of just absorb. Full piece here: https://lnkd.in/dif2GNfK

In a recent feature, the Daily Mail asked me whether turbulence is getting worse and how SkyPath actually gives airlines and pilots actionable data to plan ahead for turbulence. We talked about the turbulence baseline that's been climbing for decades and what can be done about it. Turbulence isn't going away, but the surprise factor is manageable. With SkyPath, we can adjust the amount of warning a flight crew has. Ten minutes' notice is the difference between a seatbelt sign that comes on before the bumps and one that comes on after. It's the difference between flying a route blind and flying it with pilot reports, aircraft data, and AI forecasting fused into one live picture of where the air is rough and where it's smooth. Read the full piece: https://lnkd.in/eEwBf5m2

For years, turbulence has been treated as the one part of flying you simply can't predict. That's the narrative we're changing with SkyPath - and it was a real privilege to make that case alongside Richard Quest on CNN International’s Quest Means Business. The idea is simple: turn every aircraft into an active sensor. We take scattered, real-time reports from flights and turn them into a single live map of the sky - one that pilots and airlines can act on, far beyond what traditional radar can show. It's the shift from reactive to proactive. Instead of bracing for turbulence, flight crews get the data to prepare, navigate safely, and keep passengers comfortable. Thank you, Richard Quest and the CNN team, for having me and for helping put a spotlight on a problem the entire industry has a stake in solving.