PA44 pilot reported continuing in unsafe weather conditions following several suggestions to the ins...

Attributes
ACN	1575314
Time
Date	201808
Place
Locale Reference	ZZZ.Airport
State Reference	US
Environment
Flight Conditions	Marginal
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	PA-44 Seminole/Turbo Seminole
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 91
Flight Phase	Landing
Route In Use	Visual Approach
Flight Plan	None
Person 1
Function	Pilot Flying
Qualification	Flight Crew Commercial Flight Crew Instrument Flight Crew Multiengine
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 50 Flight Crew Total 190 Flight Crew Type 10
Events
Anomaly	Deviation - Procedural FAR Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy Inflight Event / Encounter Unstabilized Approach Inflight Event / Encounter VFR In IMC Inflight Event / Encounter Weather / Turbulence

Narrative:

I was doing a training flight with my instructor. I really don't want to get him in trouble but we got a little unsafe. I wanted to file a report so that other people can learn from my experience. There were storms coming in. We however were clear of the storms so we kept doing the lesson. During the lesson I brought up possibly diverting and waiting for the storm to pass over [the] airport. I mentioned diverting about 3 times. Each time he said 'we'll be fine.' we flew back full power to beat the storm. About 2 to 3 miles from the storm I pulled the power back and below 140 dropped the gear below 111 dropped one notch of flaps. Than a massive gust hit us and our airspeed went up to about 150. It caused enough turbulence for me to hit my head on the roof of the cockpit and for my headset to partially come off. I raised the flaps and kept the gear down. My instructor started flying the airplane along with me. I asked him who was flying and he said he's helping me but I saw that he was flying and I let him fly. We only had a visual approach and when we landed I couldn't see outside the windshield. We should have diverted; or gone around; or requested an approach as the weather was really close to [the airport]. Continuing the landing was unsafe because we could have gotten into a micro-burst gotten hit with downdrafts and a tailwind and crashed.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: PA44 pilot reported continuing in unsafe weather conditions following several suggestions to the instructor pilot.

Narrative: I was doing a training flight with my instructor. I really don't want to get him in trouble but we got a little unsafe. I wanted to file a report so that other people can learn from my experience. There were storms coming in. We however were clear of the storms so we kept doing the lesson. During the lesson I brought up possibly diverting and waiting for the storm to pass over [the] airport. I mentioned diverting about 3 times. Each time he said 'we'll be fine.' We flew back full power to beat the storm. About 2 to 3 miles from the storm I pulled the power back and below 140 dropped the gear below 111 dropped one notch of flaps. Than a massive gust hit us and our airspeed went up to about 150. It caused enough turbulence for me to hit my head on the roof of the cockpit and for my headset to partially come off. I raised the flaps and kept the gear down. My instructor started flying the airplane along with me. I asked him who was flying and he said he's helping me but I saw that he was flying and I let him fly. We only had a visual approach and when we landed I couldn't see outside the windshield. We should have diverted; or gone around; or requested an approach as the weather was really close to [the airport]. Continuing the landing was unsafe because we could have gotten into a micro-burst gotten hit with downdrafts and a tailwind and crashed.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.