The only real option to avoid turbulence is planning with weather charts. Otherwise you have to ride it out. As long as it is not severe turbulence there is no reason to act.
If it’s severe change the flight level and/or routing.
Don’t think he is. Just a regular passenger
So how can he know air transat a330?
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- Pilot in training;
- The captain told us:
- You could see the condensation trail every now and again passing over the wing, and we hit severe turbulence
- Flight radar 24
- It was the Atlantic Ocean ‘Airplane Highway’
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No, i was trying to make things clear. I learned from a documentary: turbulences which are caused by another aircraft are going down 700ft/min, and pilots are always stay far from this turbulences. And there are some aircrashes which are caused by this kind of turbulence. So, i don’t think that your turbulence is caused by A330. I am trying to learn, if i am wrong, let me know.
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Oh wait I think you mean the aircraft in front was an A330. No that was me, I believe the one in front was a Swiss Boeing 777, because it was on a longer flight to either San Francisco or Los Angeles, so he passed us on our right, whilst we carried onto Vancouver.
Turbulence can be caused by both aircraft that have flown in the area you’ve flown, and general wind depending on the speed and heading of it.
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Well, enjoy it.
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I had some extreme turbulence once, so what u did was have an quick descent to 10,000ft where the air is not so rough. I later kept flying going higher and higher until I reach a comfortable altitude to fly at so in my case 26,000ft all the way to my destination. So over all fly at a lower altitude where the air isn’t so rough and since the game has live weather you can look at live weather tracking and fly around storms or look at wind charts
Windy.com is great website to check the wind in few different altitude. You can move to weaker wind if you find a spot on windy.com.
I’ve definitely encountered the rocking in wind and turbulence on the A321, and that was about a year ago. I’ve flown many A321 flights and since then, they haven’t happened! Weird…
It usually depends where you are in the world, and which way the wind is facing. It is a A320 bug. At around Mach 0.86 it starts to rock your aircraft up and down at speeds which keep dropping until it stalls. I usually cruise around Mach 0.85-0.91 (I did 0.91 in a 787 not overspeeding somehow today)
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M.85 is way to fast for am A320, it should be cruising as .78-.80
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As i learned somewhere, expected speeds of aircrafts are:
B737 series, 0.75-77M
A320 series, 0.77-79
A330 0.80-82
B777 0.80-84
B787 0.82-85
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True, but I usually travel East, giving me much more speed once cruising.
Mach speed is not influenced by the wind as opposed to the ground speed (correct me please if I am wrong).
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Correct, IAS would not be influenced by wind, only ground speed @Ecoops123
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