Completely insane thermals in Career/Mission

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ISSUE DESCRIPTION

Description of the issue:
While cropdusting in an AT-802 I was suddenly sucked into the stratosphere by a very large and ridiculously strong thermal, starting at 200-250 ft AGL.

The weather was, graphically, very convective so it was probably a thermal simulation gone haywire.

I was eventually at >10k feet, in full reverse, full flaps with airspeed pegged at 120 knots, 25-45 degrees nose down - and climbing rapidly. I traversed about 7 nm away, downwind, but did not escape this updraft.

Going 5 nm upwind of where it first occured eventually got me out.

Provide specific location or coordinates:
ESTO - Tomelilla

Provide time and date of the observed weather issue:
Career cropdusting mission so daytime per mission, 2025-01-05

[PC Only] Did you remove all your community mods/add-ons? If yes, are you still experiencing the issue?
Don’t really have any, except for the A2A Comanche. No WX or scenery addons.

FREQUENCY OF ISSUE

How often does this occur for you (Example: Just once, every time on sim load, intermittently)?

This once.

REPRODUCTION STEPS

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YOUR SETTINGS

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[PC Only] Are you using Developer Mode or have you made any changes to it? No.

[PC, MSFS 2020 Only] Are you using DX11 or DX12?

[PC Only] What GPU (Graphics Card) do you use? N/A

[PC Only] What other relevant PC specs can you share?

MEDIA

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Could be related to this report: Wind and turbulence in the Career Mode is ridiculous

No, this one is related to convective weather (thermals/atmospheric layeringl rather than wind or turbulence.

The implementation may well be in the same module, but it is bound to be a different implementation and should be investigated separately.