PA-44 Seminole/Turbo Seminole
Flight Crew Commercial; Flight Crew Instrument; Flight Crew Multiengine
Flight Crew Last 90 Days 50; Flight Crew Total 190; Flight Crew Type 10
Communication Breakdown; Situational Awareness
Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural FAR; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy; Inflight Event / Encounter Unstabilized Approach; Inflight Event / Encounter VFR In IMC; Inflight Event / Encounter Weather / Turbulence
General None Reported / Taken
Procedure; Human Factors; Weather
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.
PA44 pilot reported continuing in unsafe weather conditions following several suggestions to the instructor pilot.