On Jun 5, 4:31 pm, john smith wrote:


Robert, I read much of what Dave Gwinn said in his AvWeb podcast in your
post. :-)
Dave also mentions asking the ATC controller to press his "Weather 3"
key and describe the "slashes and H's" along your route.

Thank you. I am a pilot by profession and joy but an engineer (and a
military history person) by education....and I am a ham radio
operator...and a RF radar engineer.

"Weather 3" is a good key...the new ASR displays are quite good...and
there is some software coming along which will marry all the Nexrad/
ASR stuff and to do it from a lot of different sites.

I am frequently amazed from a "personal" perspective what happens if
you put a "picture" before someone. It becomes "the almighty truth"
regardless of the limitations of what the picture says. WX
information is just that...

I dont know how many times I have sat with new first officers or
upgrading captains or private pilots in new twins or ones with stuff
like 396's...and they see the picture and have no real idear about
what the limitations are.

I rode shotgun one time with a guy in his new (to him) Cessna 400
series twin and he saw the picture and was buying everything just
right down the line.

All this stuff is good as long as one understands what the "limits"
are...the words of Inspector Calahan seem to hold true..."A man has
got to know his limitations"

Robert