Alaska Crashes Should Serve To Remind All Pilots That Mother Nature Is Always In Char

On Aug 14, 11:35*am, Mxsmanic wrote:

Another potential problem is that terrain warning systems are designed to keep
you out of harm's way, but for some pilots there might be a tendency to use
them to see how much they can get away with.

I wonder about the same thing with XM in-plane weather (apparently)
showing thunderstorm location in great detail. I could see some
pilots being drawn in too close, based on the data shown on their
screens, and then finding out too late that they are in the bad stuff.

FlyCherokee writes:

I wonder about the same thing with XM in-plane weather (apparently)
showing thunderstorm location in great detail. I could see some
pilots being drawn in too close, based on the data shown on their
screens, and then finding out too late that they are in the bad stuff.

I've read a number of articles that are critical of XM weather for this
reason. I don't know much about XM weather, but from what I understand of it,
I certainly wouldn't rely on it if I were a pilot. It sounds like a
convenience rather than a reliable safety-of-life system.

Then again, there are a lot of things that I wouldn't rely on as a pilot that
other pilots seem to take as gospel. Some of the behaviors I see described by
pilots or even illustrated by them on YouTube worry me, assuming that these
people really are licensed pilots.

Mxsmanic wrote:
FlyCherokee writes:

I wonder about the same thing with XM in-plane weather (apparently)
showing thunderstorm location in great detail. I could see some
pilots being drawn in too close, based on the data shown on their
screens, and then finding out too late that they are in the bad stuff.

I've read a number of articles that are critical of XM weather for this
reason. I don't know much about XM weather, but from what I understand of it,
I certainly wouldn't rely on it if I were a pilot. It sounds like a
convenience rather than a reliable safety-of-life system.

It is well known that XM weather is not real time.

No one with any sense uses XM for anything other than general information as
in there is heavy weather to the north.

If you need real time, detailed weather you need real weather radar on board.

If you were a pilot you would know that.

Then again, there are a lot of things that I wouldn't rely on as a pilot that
other pilots seem to take as gospel. Some of the behaviors I see described by
pilots or even illustrated by them on YouTube worry me, assuming that these
people really are licensed pilots.

This is nothing more than your usual gratuitous shot at real pilots.


--
Jim Pennino

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writes:

If you need real time, detailed weather you need real weather radar on board.

If you were a pilot you would know that.

A lot of pilots don't know that.

Mxsmanic wrote:
writes:

If you need real time, detailed weather you need real weather radar on board.

If you were a pilot you would know that.

A lot of pilots don't know that.

And you know this how?



--
Jim Pennino

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wrote:
Mxsmanic wrote:
writes:

If you need real time, detailed weather you need real weather radar
on board.

If you were a pilot you would know that.

A lot of pilots don't know that.

And you know this how?

It's a deliberately vague ("a lot") and provocative ("pilots don't know
that" on a piloting newsgroup) statement.

On Aug 18, 2:09*pm, wrote:
Mxsmanic wrote:
writes:

If you need real time, detailed weather you need real weather radar on board.

If you were a pilot you would know that.

A lot of pilots don't know that.

And you know this how?

He used his inventafact machine.
Imagine weather radar in a C152

FlyCherokee wrote:
I wonder about the same thing with XM in-plane weather (apparently)
showing thunderstorm location in great detail. I could see some
pilots being drawn in too close, based on the data shown on their
screens, and then finding out too late that they are in the bad stuff.

Sirius/XM weather data is okay, but you have to remember that it is
always some 20 to 60 minutes behind reality.

Once you come to grips with that, everything about Sirius/XM weather
is just fine. It's a useful service. You can see general weather systems
across all of North America.

Now, if you have all that *AND* the privilege of being at 8000' and you
still can't see a weather system is about to smack you in the face then
I'm sorry, you deserve to have it kill you.

I did not read the original post but the pilot is always in
charge...or he should quit flying.

Ron Lee