Deadly Turbulence

**jcmissionary** · 02-28-2002, 11:55 PM

Funny thing happened to me on my way from KLAX to KABQ. I was over the Arizona desert at fl330 at 285 IAS in a 737-700 when over the course of 5 seconds, I hit a patch of turbulence that knocked my speed to over 320, bumped me up about 150 feet, and then had FS tell me I had overstressed my plane. :-mad Is there anyway to avoid this? The flight had been a little bumpy before then, but nothing like what I ran into that killed me. When I hit the first, mild turbulence, should I have requested a different altitude? (I was on VATSIM), or should I just turn off aircraft overstressing in the realism menu?

J.C.

**mdklatt** · 03-01-2002, 10:33 AM

Somone's going to have to explain to me how they keep running into turbulence. I use real weather and it never sets turbulence layers. You'll get surface gusts, but that's it. Were you using FSMeteo or did you set the turbulence layers manually in the weather menu?

**jcmissionary** · 03-01-2002, 11:18 AM

I was using FSMeteo.

**caps04** · 03-01-2002, 11:57 AM

i like it...sounds so real. FSmeteo adds another layer of realism onto FS and i wish i had it. anyways, best is to disable the stress realism to avoid this in the future if disabling FSmeteo is not an option ;-) i dont see any other way.

caps

**jcmissionary** · 03-01-2002, 02:41 PM

FS Meteo is kinda pricy, but it is by far the best weather utility out there. I never fly without it. Coupled with FS Sky World, it's awesome!

J.C.

**Trev** · 03-01-2002, 02:45 PM

I have noticed this when using Real Weather, I get shakened around and the AS goes haywire and then I notice real weather has disappeared and I fly along for a couple of minutes and the same thing hapens and real weather is back. strange.

Trevor:-)

**NedUT** · 03-01-2002, 03:10 PM

I've had similar experiences with FSMeteo, one or two to the point where the overspeed clacker was going off. But, haven't yet Vmax'ed a plane because of it.

Which 737 are you using? Maybe just an over-sensitive model? I was flying with the GA737-400.

A tip on reducing the chance of that happening though. Just make sure you're not pushing the redline on the IAS. Especially if you've got a strong tailwind, give yourself plenty of padding on the IAS before you hit redline (i.e. if you're IAS gauge shows Max IAS at 300kts and you've got a strong tailwind, maybe slow down until your IAS is 280kts or so... the added ground speed from the tailwind will make up for it).

This way if you get a wind flip like that the plane will have a little cushioning on the IAS side while A/T tries to compensate. From everything I understand about real-world weather, a "wind shear" event like this wouldn't occur at that high of a cruising altitude. Generally, winds aloft shift much more gradually. I don't even think crossing in & out of the jet stream should cause wind shifts quite as bad as those that occur with FSMeteo, but at the same time - it keeps you on your toes!

See ya in the pattern!

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**jhender501** · 03-01-2002, 03:33 PM

I've had that happen with Real Weather..hit a patch of turbulence, and then lose Real weather, only to get it back..

But, I've also hit some turbulence without losing RW as well.[

On another note, I was on a realworld flight between DEN (stapleton) and ABQ one night where I thought for sure the
plane was going to fall apart...one of the scarier flights
I've been on!

Jim