Hey infinite flight community. Recently i did a long haul flight from delhi to heathrow on a 777 and on the way i faced winds at the speed of 120-130 kts and flew other routes and there was a lot of turbulence. Recently i did a short flight from halifax to toronto and the turbulence was nuts. I flew on a a220-300 and the turbulence was whopping 110kts and my plane could not take it. It was going up and down left to right with g forces going from 0.7 to 1.5g. I felt like my plane would just disconnect autopilot and crash. Are there anyways to tackle such high turbulence? Or is it just the glitch in the server? I faced this both in training and expert server.
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Sometimes in the airbus family, if your too heavy and cruising at +35,000 ft, the plane will start to go crazy and wobble which may feel like turbulence. You can also try to descend or climb since turbulence and wind is different at different altitudes.
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No it only dod that when it was windy it was because of turbulence i tried changing altitude and and speed but nothing works?
Best to avoid the area. Might have been clear air turbulence. Windy.com is a great website for weather flight planning.
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Altitude changes can help. Honestly not sure where infinite flight pulls its upper air data from, so I’m not sure at what level of detail it is and how it interprets that data, but in real life that is one of the more common tricks.
Also planning your route in advance can be useful. I see @Aviation_Alex already linked Windy.com which is a great resource for viewing a lot of global weather data. Earth can also be a great resource, though if you are looking at GFS on Windy they should be largely the same, and windy does provide altitude in feet not pressure which may alleviate some confusion. When trying to look for areas with high turbulence don’t just look for areas of high wind, but look for areas of high wind speed changes. Aloft you have little ground influence, with some exceptions downwind of mountainous terrain, and infinite flight does not in any way model convective turbulence (thunderstorms) to the best of my knowledge. Areas of consistently high wind speed are usually not too bad, ie the center of a jet stream, but near the edges where the wind speed rapidly changes over a relatively short horizontal distance is where you will get the worst of the turbulence. Jet noses, or the end of a jet stream are also particularly bad for turbulence.
If you are flying in and around the US the Aviation Weather Center provides a ton of amazing information, most useful here is EDR or eddy dispersion rate, which will actually show us where the turbulence is. They also have airmets and occasionally sigmets which will warn of areas of high turbulence. Good flight planning is probably the best way to avoid turbulence, once you are in it altitude changes may help, and slowing down will help a bit too. But at the same time it just doesn’t matter as much in the sim, no one is going to spill their drink or bump their head 🤷🏻♂️
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- Use as many as the external websites linked above.
- Plan your route and see if you need to deviate from your current FPL.
- Altitude changes may help but this depends on how heavy your plane is.
- Turn your seatbelt sign on I guess 🤷♂️.
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To add, Simbrief will show you expected shear values along route and wind info for a selection of waypoints. It also gives signficant weather charts.
But really, unless it’s severe turbulence (i.e. airplane is difficult to control with significant altitude or airspeed fluctuations) just turn the seat belt sign on and slow down.
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