Safety, yet again...

"Matt Barrow" wrote:

"Margy Natalie" wrote:


Make sure you add don't fly ...(within 20 miles) of convective weather.

A nice rule, but down here in Thunderstorm Alley it would keep you on the
ground a lot.

http://www.weatherpages.com/variety/thunderstorms.html

Where CBs are an almost daily event 5 months of the year, one has to be a
bit more discriminating about what constitutes a really dangerous storm,
or one's flying will be severely restricted.

Average of 79 days a year? All day? Static?

Most of those 79 are concentrated in summer. There is a morning shift of
CBs and an afternoon shift, and some days they overlap. This sometimes
happens every day for a month. Thunderstorms are my cross to bear; that's
why I think the 396 is the greatest aviation gadget ever.

Not even a 20 mile gap?

I mean there are plenty of days in the summer when you'd have trouble getting
out of Mobile on time if you *insisted* on a 20-mile gap. Even if you did
dart out when you saw an opening, you might then have to land short of your
destination and wait until there was a 20-mile clear path and radius to that
airport. If I had all day to sit around FBOs waiting for just the right
moment, I suppose I wouldn't care.

Most of the summer sea breeze boomers on the Gulf Coast do not need a 20-mile
separation for safety. 10 miles is plenty.

--
Dan
C-172RG at BFM