Have you ever truly experienced "SEVERE Turbulence”?

Strap in and tighten your belts (as I literally needed to!) for an "operational IFR" flight from Buffalo NY to Union City Tennessee. It was a challenging weather day with multiple low pressure systems across the ~700 mile route causing wide spread areas of convention. I'm sharing the real time decision making and the tools I used to successfully and safely get this trip done. Shout out to SiriusXM Aviation Having access to weather data while flying is a game changer! https://www.siriusxm.com/aviation/ Canadian link: https://www.siriusxm.ca/aviation/ I appreciate Bose Aviation being a Flight Chops supporter for almost 10 years! With a simple Flight Sound X adapter you can use your real aviation headset with your sim! https://boseaviation.com/experiences/... And I’d like to introduce TWO new Flight Chops partner / sponsors - both are interestingly leaning into bringing AI to aviation. Bernoulli is a flight intelligence system that puts an instructor into your simulator to fly with you, talk to you and respond to natural language questions while passing control back and forth. Bernoulli does the things a real flight instructor does, critique, feedback, focus, airmanship. To use a simulator in a way that supports real flight training, let Bernoulli take care of tech support, and your learning curriculum.  It is truly a way to dramatically increase the value and utility of your home flight simulator! Learn more: https://www.predictivedynamics.ai/hom... PlaneWX is solving a problem most of us in general aviation know too well — especially those of us without professional dispatchers. You make plans weeks out. Bags are packed, hotels are booked, people are counting on you. But TAFs and METARs weren't designed to look more than 24 hours ahead. Beyond that window, you're left making sense of model output that takes real meteorological training to read. We do our best, but it can often feel like waiting and hoping What impressed me about PlaneWX is how it follows your flight from the moment you enter it all the way to wheels-up. Weeks out, it's reading the broad weather pattern. Days out, it's tracking the trend. Inside 24 hours, it layers in the highest-resolution products available — so your WX Score gets sharper and more actionable right up until you taxi out. And it's not just reading the weather. It's reading the weather against your aircraft, your ratings, and your personal minimums. No EFB or weather app does that. The team at PlaneWX has truly impressed me, and I'm excited to help tell their story. Learn more: https://www.planewx.ai/ #Flying episodes like this wouldn't be sustainable without the involvement of Patrons. I want to thank all of you for your ongoing support! To become a part of the Flight Chops core community and gain access to exclusive raw cuts, behind the scenes videos, and more, visit:   / flightchops   Follow FlightChops on Instagram:   / flightchops   FlightChops Sponsors & Supporters: https://flightchops.com/supporters/ FLIGHT CHOPS DISCLAIMER: I am a "weekend warrior" private pilot, I fly for fun with no intentions of going commercial. I have had my PPL for over 20 years, but still consider each flight a learning experience - I generally take detailed notes after each flight to remind myself what went well or what I could do to improve.... Having Action cameras to record flights like this is invaluable. I find these self analysis videos very helpful in my constant quest to improve, and am happy to share. Feedback is invited; however, please keep it positive.