Originally Posted by
Lyman
Unlikely? More so than Pitots filling with powdery ice?
This was a known issue with the Thales AA pitot tubes, so not at all unlikely.
Can you quote me a velocity for UP/DOWN air mass in a fully developed Cell? Or in its vicinity?
No.
I'm going to guess 100 knots.
In which case it's going to come up against the inertia of 500+kts horizontal airflow and come off worse.