Anybody Speak French? Wanna confirm that the google translation is right?
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I'm afraid "fortes turbulences" is just blurry terminology like "strong turbulences".
Found this on a French aviation website:
- CAT légère : 75% des cas
- CAT modérée : 15 à 20% des cas
- CAT sévère : 5 à 10% des cas
- CAT violente ou extrême : 1% des cas
I'm French and I concur : "fortes" might be translated by "strong" or relating to these CAT categories, by "severe".
Another question here : there is a whole thread on the french Website Eurocockpit about the first ACARS released by BEA apparently lacking any mention of PITOT probe failures. Now the "new" complete ACARS seems to mention these too.
An AF pilot received the transcript of the ACARS from AF maintenance :
"capricorn a écrit:Bonjour à tous
De retour de vol ce matin la maintenance m'a fourni la copie EXACTE (donc complète) des 24 messages ACARS de AF 447;
Sur la premiere ligne , a coté de on avait: ...
CQFD, les 3 pitots étaient HS"
Translation :
"Hi, everybody,
Back from last flight this morning, maintenance gave me the EXACT copy (hence complete) of the 24 ACARS messages from AF447 :
First line, beside F/CTL RUD TRVL LIMIT FAULT, it reads
EFCS PROBE 1+2/2+3/1+3.
Meaning all 3 PITOT probe were OOO (out of order)."