DJ77
This thread is about AF447
- It is not about CBs.
- Even non fliers know that flying into CBs is dangerous.
Well since the major, dynamic threat to safety along AF447's route of flight that night was a large area of CBs, and that was also the area which the aircraft was transitioning through at FL350 when was lost, I'd say CBs, what they produce in terms of threatening a flight (turbulence, icing, hail, vertical gusts, effects on aerodynamics and equipement), and difficulties detecting what can be the more severe aspects of them with airborne radar at high altitude, is indeed pertinent as any other discussion about it. Cetainly as pertinent as bits of debris, schematic drawings, and ocean currents.