Air carrier Captain reported continuous turbulence during cruise that caused altitude deviations. The flight crew notified the company of the weather conditions and submitted a Maintenance logbook write up.

Date: 2024-11 · Aircraft: B757 Undifferentiated or Other Model · Phase: cruise

Anomalies: Deviation altitude excursion from assigned altitudeDeviation discrepancy procedural published material policyInflight event encounter weather turbulenceInflight event encounter loss of aircraft control

Synopsis

Air carrier Captain reported continuous turbulence during cruise that caused altitude deviations. The flight crew notified the company of the weather conditions and submitted a Maintenance logbook write up.

Narrative

While dealing with continuous moderate turbulence for over an hour; including an event of unable to maintain altitude due to high level wind shear that caused us to descend from 370 to 350 previously; we encountered what I would describe as severe chop. The aircraft was not significantly displaced; there was never any doubt as to maintaining control; and no limits were exceeded in airspeed and no high G situations were encountered. I could best describe it as experiencing a corduroy road at high speed such that the aircraft did shake hard enough that the instruments were hard to see at times; items were tossed off the galley counter and the company app recorded the event as Moderate occasionally severe turbulence. No passengers were up; the seatbelt sign was on the entire time; the flight attendants had been seated for close to an hour by my estimation and they had been advised of the chop/turn and were in contact with us throughout periodically with good CRM. There was no [priority handling requested]. We communicated the report and our situation with Dispatch via ACARS. I further communicated with Maintenance Control prior to making the ELB (Electronic Log Book) report. The ELB report included the details that no airspeed limits were exceeded and no high G situations were experienced.

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