|
|
The instrument pilot that hasn't flown into a storm, hasn't flown very long. I don't know about the west side of the country but it will happen east of the Mississippi.
I have flown this side of the country for over 30 years. Sometimes, while flying in haze, stormscopes will not show thunderstorms until you are in them. Lets hope that the new WX will be better. I will get mine sometime in the next 2 months.
One time while flying in a 172RG with a storm scope from Knoxville to Detroit at 6,000 ft., I ran into a thunderstorm. I new that I was running parallel to a squall line. The visibility was nil and I could not see the line. The stormscope showed nothing at all. All of a sudden the plane started going up at about 500 ft/sec and the stormscope lit up all around. I aimed for the least lit area. At 11,000 ft I started to worry about oxygen at about 14,000 ft I broke out the other side. The controller had turned me gradually into the squall line and the storm scope hadn't show a thing.
A couple of years ago at about 2300 hours, going from Oshkosh to Chattanooga, in my Lancair, with no weather equipment, I could only avoid the thunderstorms by trying to stay away from the lighting. It was so turbulent that I couldn't use the mike button on the stick. I now ask controllers for more help. They sometimes have me follow other aircraft allowing me to effectively use the other aircrafts weather equipment.
Always try to avoid thunderstorms. However, in the east side of the country, at least without weather equipment, you need to know how to fly attitude at a reasonable speed (ie. not to fast and not to slow) because eventually you will fly into a thunderstorm.
Lorn
From: Walter Atkinson <walter@advancedpilot.com>
Buz:
I agree with your premise, but let me tell you that one can get *sucked* into a thunderstorm.
.
.
Now, fly into a lightening-infested Tx--BY CHOICE? Not me. No way. Twice by accident was twice too many. Not this country boy.
Walter
--
Lorn H. 'Feathers' Olsen, MAA, DynaComm, Corp.
248-345-0500, mailto:lorn@dynacomm.ws
LNC2, O-320-D1F, 1,100 hrs, N31161, Y47, SE Michigan
|
|