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Old 15th Sep 2016, 16:05
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Algol
 
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Oh FFS, haha! You CX guys are so damned thin skinned! Even just a query gets you right on the defensive. Should've known better than mention the dreaded CX even in a general way.

Don't like the idea of public scrutiny? Feel threatened by the Internet hoardes? Here's news for you - it's a fact of life. The public want to know.
How do you manage to live with the imposition of twice yearly Sim Checks? And those impudent Instructors questioning your every decision?!
Hey, if you want some 'privacy' maybe you're in the wrong business. Maybe you should indeed be doing brain surgery instead. Go for it!

Oasis, you made an attempt at a reasonable answer. Well done. However your response doesn't entirely satisfy. At planning stage, how do you know what any particular typhoon will be like? If the Sigmet says 'embedded CBs to FL520' what makes you so sure you can avoid them? WX radar, fine. But we're talking an area of potentially concentrated CBs which may be impossible to find a way through. Most OM-As tell us to avoid CBs by at least 20nm, and to completely circumnavigate areas of concentrated CB activity (like in a major typhoon), so what makes you so certain it's safe to launch into it?

Besides that, you mention rising temps - yes, which means lowering stall margins and quite possibly an ECAM message that you're above your max crz level and you must descend - into the clag. Most guidance tells us never to try to outclimb CBs, and only fly over one if able to clear it by several thousand feet. Are we to ignore these directions?

Worst of all is the real horror scenario of an eng fail or pressurisation loss while over the storm. Now you're going down into the thick of it - with a serious emergency already on your hands.

In my opinion it is reckless beyond justification to take a flight into this kind of environment, and it seems (from the comments above) that a certain cadre of twits are raring to do it based only on some gung-ho macho man assumptions.
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