It would be really cool to have convective turbulence on a hot day from the heat rising. This happens a lot below FL100 in hot conditions causing wind and thunderstorms
I hope you agree that this is important!
Turbulence is something that is based on real life data as it is already, not sure how we can make it better ;)
Well there is no real life prediction about convection until it becomes a cloud. Convection can happen without a cloud if the humidity is low, but it is almost garunteed that there will be thermals in hot days causing turbulence.
I’m not talking about predictions. Our data is based on real life observations from NOAA.
Ah I never knew that, I have never hit any convective turbulence in IF though and I fly ALOT during the summer.
Maybe this will come into IF when clouds are added. But I don’t see this as an immediate need though. This is a good idea though. Something I would like to see that could be added is wake turbulence caused by other aircraft.
Well the point that @schyllberg was trying to make is we do have turbulence modeled on real-world data - this would include convective turbulence bundled in as well.
I have a feeling you might not notice turbulence as much because your chair doesn’t move up and down 10 or 20 feet when you hit it ;) I find it rare that I have a completely smooth flight, but I agree I don’t notice strong turbulence very often. Whenever we do have clouds it might be easier to tell with the visual cue
Very true.
