N11KK - What a ride?

[Boilermonkey]

With weather moving into the Indy area and some big wind gusts I opened Foreflight from my desk to see what the weather looked like.  I flew yesterday, but today's conditions were pretty nasty.  I tuned into KIND tower freq. to see if any of the commercial guys were struggling with the winds.   I then noticed that a M20M was taking off out of KIND, the same type of aircraft we have.   I took at look at the flight plan.  60 knot head wind, turbulence, icing.    

N11KK, if you are out there, how was it really?  I tend to avoid these types of conditions, but I know the airplane with FIKI is capable of it.   Were the conditions as forecasted?  Were you able to get on top?  How bad was the turbulence?  Looks like you had a bit of a deviation, did you see that you couldn't top it, bad nexrad returns, or something else.    ...how was it?   

[LANCECASPER]

3 hours ago, Boilermonkey said:

With weather moving into the Indy area and some big wind gusts I opened Foreflight from my desk to see what the weather looked like.  I flew yesterday, but today's conditions were pretty nasty.  I tuned into KIND tower freq. to see if any of the commercial guys were struggling with the winds.   I then noticed that a M20M was taking off out of KIND, the same type of aircraft we have.   I took at look at the flight plan.  60 knot head wind, turbulence, icing.    

N11KK, if you are out there, how was it really?  I tend to avoid these types of conditions, but I know the airplane with FIKI is capable of it.   Were the conditions as forecasted?  Were you able to get on top?  How bad was the turbulence?  Looks like you had a bit of a deviation, did you see that you couldn't top it, bad nexrad returns, or something else.    ...how was it?   

 

And making the return flight today . . no thanks. . .  the last hour of today's return flight should be "interesting".

https://www.flightaware.com/live/flight/N11KK/history/20240112/1925Z/KEUF/3I3

Does N11KK stand for kamikaze . . lol?

[N201MKTurbo]

Yuck. Takes the fun out of flying....

[Boilermonkey]

At least they have a nice tailwind on the way back.

[AndreiC]

Wow, I did not know that ForeFlight can display the altitudes where the precip is. Do you know if they can make a similar profile picture with where the cloud tops are?

[KLK]

The winds weren’t bad taking off. The flight was surprisingly smooth at 250. Everyone was fighting turbulence, even the big dogs. I was on top of 90% of the weather at 250. IMC the whole time. I picked up light rime ice in the clouds and the TKS did a great job keeping up with it. The headwinds were tough at all altitudes but seemed to be forecasted less at 250. Even with the headwind I still saw 150kts which I was happy with. When I diverted and descended to 11,000 it got a little rowdy. Turbulence was the worst part.  The weather was pretty much as forecasted. I deviated because of rain that was above me and to be safe I went ahead and descended below the freezing level. Definitely don’t want to get in SLD. I did a lot of flight planning and checking the weather before going. When I fly in weather like this, I give myself a bunch of outs and know where the freezing levels are. I also ran my plan by a commercial pilot friend before heading out. I would make the flight again. 

[hammdo]

[Boilermonkey]

Well done.  Two ship next time ;-)