I hate the easy way.

Ian_J

Ian_J

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Sooo.... the giant hole to the south would have been easier.
 
Look up radar lies anyway. ;)

If it's not sweeping on my ride, it lies. Except JAX ctr. they have some sort of super radar no one else knows about.
 
Ian J said:
Tops to 550. ;)
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The way I see the weather, it's usually "Max Tops FL550", so there could have been all sorts of ways through that sucker that were apparent to the naked eyeball looking at it from the stadium view, but not apparent from the 2D look down.
 
Hacker15e said:
The way I see the weather, it's usually "Max Tops FL550", so there could have been all sorts of ways through that sucker that were apparent to the naked eyeball looking at it from the stadium view, but not apparent from the 2D look down.
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Heck yeah. The visibility was pretty good as I was flying between cells and I could look all the way up to the tops. I was thinking this would have been a hell of a lot easier to get around if I was up there!
 
Gosh I hate Rome. I would believe you if you told me you took off in a blizzard last night.
 
ljg said:
Gosh I hate Rome. I would believe you if you told me you took off in a blizzard last night.
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Ha!

Luckily, I only have a 20 minute sit there. Well, an hour yesterday thanks to the t-storm on the field.
 
AHH KBED my old home. Airnet would be a great place to fly for me if only they had a base closer up here. Moving to CT is not an option. Been there, done that in 2000.
 
Atleast you're getting some action. It's been severe clear where I'm flying...with the exception of having to shoot an approach through a 500ft thick cloud layer every other night. Boring!
 
Is this the easy way? Then I had to go back to IXD. later. Only hit severe turb a handfull of times. Even 747's in chicago when the storms were about to roll through reported severe. That's when you know it will be fun.:banghead:
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Here's mine. My radar wasn't playing nice that day and i got into the red stuff immediately after a hand-off. The turbulence was so severe it was hard to talk in a normal voice on the radio.
 

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Fun Fun.

I will agree, I'm not sure what JAX CTR has for equipment but the way I got vectored around buildups last week was much appreciated ;)
 
For some reason my track didn't show up on that flight. It probably would have looked a little more zig zaggy than what's on there now. Kansas City has a good radar too. I think they can see around 12ish varieties of precip.
 
Yeah, 12 variaties of precip and they're all "extreme". At least chicago mostly leaves you alone unless you look like you're about to die. I had one chick in KC tell me that she "strongly recommended" that I go basically fly to nebraska to get around what turned out to be moderate rainshowers and constant light chop. :rolleyes:

Ace: I remember the night the kalitta guys were calling severe, what maybe a month ago? I think I got in on the backside and didn't even get dribbled off the ceiling once. Are you in MDW most nights?
 
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