anybody of you fellow pilots out there have been through this
(or something similar)?
- approaching CB killer cell without seeing it (why?, wx radar fault?, too-fast buildup?)
- entering the outer downdraft surprisingly (cpt woke up?), (ice)
- entering low-pressure inner updraft (water)
- back in the outer zone (N.E.) with new massive downdraft
aside from the overwhelming (and distracting) body of
technicalities,
can (has it been shown somewhere else)
a large A/C survive this encounter? With what probability?
I remember a similar encounter: Pulkovo 612 which
came out of a large CB in a flat spin (is this still valid?),
where the PF tried to "fly over" the mess and failed.
Would AF447 PF try to "overfly" the "turbulence" that
he (obviously) didn't know what it really was (otherwise,
he wouldn't be heading straight into it).
This is a question of a layperson, so please pardon
any wrong assumptions.
Thanks & regards