Meikeour - Algol: Your initial query was about transitting the eye of a typhoon at altitude. The ride can in fact be surprisingly smootH....All the typhoon issues are at low level with torrential rain bands and large wind shears - but that was not what you were enquiring about!
I would have thought it obvious that in order to get to the centre of a typhoon it is implied you must pass through the surrounding bands of TS. Do you have another way? Dieing to hear it.
Orbital re-entry perhaps?
As for your presumptions as to how CX crews are "ordered" to fly are fancifull and quite ludicrous.
Jeez, there's that fragile arrogance again.
God forbid ANYONE would ever 'order' a CX pilot to do anything! You only ever do whatever pleases you, of course. The royal prerogative!
Seriously? Flying lessons from The Mirror? This gets more bizarre by the minute.
Hugo: We're not being arrogant we're just telling you that flying through a typhoon at height is not a big problem.'
Maybe you should tell that to the Air Busan crew who encountered severe turbulence in that typhoon. Tell the 13 crews who made turbulence PIREPS that its smooth as a babies arse when you fly it (cos you're super dooper and they're tossers naturally).
OK, here's another question for you. You are flight planned to fly through a Typhoon, no big deal you say, plow on.
But there's a re-route option with clear air. Which path do you take?
You talk about 'mitigating risk' and 'using the radar etc' - so do you consider both those routings to be equally viable? If so - and you encounter something nasty, can you say you exercised appropriate risk mitigation? The answer is no, you didn't, just in case you still don't get it.
Ecam321, thanks for trying to talk them down off their high horses, but it's futile.