Run-in with Chicago Center

Rosspilot wrote:

(BTW, I do have
weather detection on board--a Strikefinder).

So, what do you avoid using your Strikefinder? Clusters of hits, obviously.
But what about "static"?

I turned away from "static" a couple of days ago. Later (using the NOAA web
site), I noted a cell in that area. Was the "static" a precursor? Just a
coincidence?

I have seen "static" before, and not noted anything coming of it.

- Andrew

(BTW, I do have
weather detection on board--a Strikefinder).

So, what do you avoid using your Strikefinder? Clusters of hits, obviously.

But what about "static"?



I have never picked up "static" to my knowledge. I set the radius to 100 nm
and if I see activity, I close it to 50nm, and keep watching. That gives me
plenty of time to make the calls to FSS or ATC to figure out what's going on,
and to land or divert as necessary.

Sometimes the electrical activity is up in the flight levels and has no effect
down where I am.




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Rosspilot wrote:

I have never picked up "static" to my knowledge.

By "static", I mean a collection of "hits" spaced relatively far apart.
That is, a dot here, a dot there, a dot somewhere else, with perhaps 10 or
20 total in a fairly wide area.

- Andrew

I have never picked up "static" to my knowledge.

By "static", I mean a collection of "hits" spaced relatively far apart.
That is, a dot here, a dot there, a dot somewhere else, with perhaps 10 or
20 total in a fairly wide area.


Well, maybe I have and just didn't recognize it as such. What I look for (in
order) a

1. How close to my airplane is the activity?

2. How fast are the stikes occurring?
(sometimes I clear it, and watch it from a clear screen just to see how fast
the orange dots are appearing)

3. Is it in my flight path?

What I do next depends on what these 3 items are telling me.



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With my WX 10 Stomrscope, I have sometimes seen "lightning strikes"
immediately behind me, in CAVU air I just flew through. Nothing
like the cluster a real storm creates, of course.

I always assumed the SS was picking up some ionization in the
atmosphere.

vince norris