Hi,
A months ago we fly through a turbulent rain cloud cause there is no way we can avoid it and I have a few question about it.
Okay so what I did was decreased the airspeed to VA, keep the wings straight and ride the wave. First encounter was updraft w/ 600-800 ft per min, I was riding that updraft and saw the airspeed was about to reach the stalling speed so I pushed the yoke down. Weird thing that happened was even if I pushed the yoke down it was still dropping airspeed and VSI is still climbing. What my instructor did was he reduced the power then drop the nose. Luckily we reached the downdraft stage of the rain cloud and got out of there safely.
So my question is, why when I pushed the yoke it was still climbing and losing airspeed? I reduced the throttle and the aircraft was at or below VA, we have an updraft of 600-800ft/min and the VSI was still climbing and airspeed was dropping to stalling speed.
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