So far there have been a lot of good suggestions re training for high altitude turbulence, stalling, and even spin recovery. However, as many have pointed out, the first priority is to avoid the extreme weather. There is a long history of jet fighters being lost in large CBs because they lacked any weather radar and yet they were stressed well above airliners' G limits and had much higher control response.
We can't properly simulate really severe turbulence, so the training - as for ditching - has to be rather arbitrary. There is a lot more we can do in regard to weather avoidance at reasonable cost/risk benefit by integrating weather data sources and I hope at least that this tragedy will spur greater efforts in that direction.
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There is a lot of 'noise' in this thread, avoiding the core issue, well written above by RifRaf3 in post #2240.
From my perspective, a humble (former) PPL holder,
avoiding the extreme weather, seems to be a minor issue as far as this thread is concerned.
The thinking seems to be that with the aid of technology, experience, and bit of good fortune, a pilot should be able to "thread the weather" (as close as possible), without "getting bitten".
Instead of discussing recovery techniques
after the accident, maybe more discussion on prevention ?
