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Flight Sim Adventures #001 - Windshear in Vienna

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7th of May 2017, 19 o'clock. I'm planning to make a short IFR flight in Austria, of course with live weather provided by Active Sky Next. From Wels to Vienna, a flight of approximately one and a half hour. My plane is a 1967 Piper PA-31 Navajo (By Carenado). I am filing my flightplan, powering up the plane and taxiing along to the runway. The weather is nice, partly cloudy and looks really amazing with the REX Soft Clouds. I am departing from runway 27L out to the east. The weather radar only shows green areas, the engines are in the green, everything is good. While climbing on 10.000 feet, the clouds got denser. The Wx-Radar shows some yellow spots. The clouds look stunning from above. At half of the way the clouds got higher and I came into rain and some turbulence, but the journey continues.  ATC instructed me to go down to 3.200 feet. Due to the lack of an altitude selector for the autopilot, I had to fly the descent manually, what already was really h