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We’re getting into Spring (and Summer soon). Time for the skies to get a bit bumpy. My question for the GPA members is:
Do you ride out the turbulence, letting the nose swing to and fro and accept a little altitude excursion or are you hard on the rudders and elevator, fighting and clawing mother nature to your destination?
Speaking for myself, I gently correct the altitude and keep my feet on the rudder pedals for only the most extreme of yaw moments. To be sure, a three hour fight with mother nature is right up there with a boxing match 😉
NOTE TO ADMIN: Thanks for adding the Water Cooler forum! Only place a post such as this could exist 🙂
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I had this flight Sunday in Virginia. We went knowing we had an airmet but smooth above 7k. We made 186 kts
Return, the Wind was straight off the nose no good air reachable above. The airliners were complaining. I was told yesterday that it became a sigmet while we were enroute.
I am with you, when it is brutal ride the waves and guide rather than tell the plane how to fly. I accepted 100 to 200feet deviations. ATC knew we were all having a time of it. Why over stress self and plane?
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