Originally Posted by PilotKD,Apr 4 2006, 09:39 PM

Wow, that's amazing. I got caught under some mammatus clouds in a Cessna 172 one time trying to get back into my airport (one of FL's finest early fall thunderstorms) and I can tell you that it's not a good idea. We got rocked around pretty darn good. I looked up and these things appeared to be "bubbling" from the up and downdrafts. Luckily we got back in fine. Ended up with a 45 knot tailwind on final approach until we got lower.