The Impact Of Turbulence On Flight Planning
When an aircraft flies through turbulence, the abrupt changes in velocity and direction of the freestream airflow can momentarily cause a change in the angle of attack (AOA), which in turn causes a change in the wing’s lift and is felt as turbulence. In transonic flight this rapid AOA change would...
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