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Old 30th Dec 2014, 01:24
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Originally Posted by peekay4
That climb request to FL380 "to avoid weather" has been puzzling me.

(begin speculation)By deviating left, they inadvertently flew into a newly developing CB with very powerful updrafts. The plane is violently pushed up, nose very high, and quickly rolled to one side; groundspeed rapidly drops.


(end speculation)
I don't fly the bus so I may have the terminology wrong here, but in normal law, wouldn't the high angle of attack and high angle of bank protection prevent this from happening?
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