If it had a WX radar or some kind of storm scope in it and the pilots knew how to use it, would have this accident occurred?
Having inadvertently flown into big CBs in bigger aeroplanes with WX radar and being IFR with 2 pilots I very quickly learnt that if I was going up in the vertical convection, I was eventually going to be spat out the other side and be thrown down at a great ROD that in some cases I had no control of, and visa versa. Only way to control the aeroplane in an inadvertent entry into a CB is firstly recognise that you are in a CB and then take your hands and feet off everything or disengage the AP if you’ve got one and sit back and ride it out and be ready for when you get thrown out.
Don’t understand what you’re talking about Wawa, a cumuliform cloud looks a lot different to a CB (or a developing or dissapating CB).
The wet season hasn’t even started yet up North, take care everyone.
Last edited by Duck Pilot; 17th Dec 2017 at 09:05.