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"Jim Carter" wrote in message m... In the Midwest, you can usually follow a line of thunderstorms (albeit at a distance) and still make your destination even if a bit late. Many people just park it for a few hours and let the storms roll through, then continue their trip in the beautiful clear skies behind the front. That works reasonably well when you are traveling Westbound since you can usually fly within 50 miles of the line of storms, let the storms go overhead, and continue on. Usually this will result in about a 2-3 hour delay. If you are headed Eastbound, however, on a trip of say 300 miles, you may well lose the whole day since storms tend to travel about 30 knots and thus it could take 10 hours for the path to clear and there could even be another line of storms behind it or perhaps it is night IMC when the storms finally clear and you are probably not rested enough to try night IMC at that point. -------------------- Richard Kaplan, CFII www.flyimc.com |
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In article m, "Richard
Kaplan" writes: That works reasonably well when you are traveling Westbound since you can usually fly within 50 miles of the line of storms, let the storms go overhead, and continue on. Usually this will result in about a 2-3 hour delay. If you are headed Eastbound, however, on a trip of say 300 miles, you may well lose the whole day since storms tend to travel about 30 knots and thus it could take 10 hours for the path to clear and there could even be another line of storms behind it or perhaps it is night IMC when the storms finally clear and you are probably not rested enough to try night IMC at that point. Or north or south. One of the prettiest cloud sights I can remember was a flight north over Mich after landing and letting a front pass over. The line was off to the right for the next hour. Chuck |
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Rich,
that's what I used to think too until I was riding right seat on a bird going into Knoxville, Tn ANG base one day. We followed a line from Tinker to Knoxville by landing about every 100 miles and having another cup of coffee. Eventually the storms started to fall apart and we were in a perfect position to take advantage of the breakup. We were late but only by about 8 hours and we had beautiful cloud formations to follow all day long. (We were in light iron so penetration or over-the-top were out of the question). -- Jim Carter Seen on a bumper sticker: If you can read this, thank a teacher If you can read this in English, thank a soldier. "Richard Kaplan" wrote in message s.com... "Jim Carter" wrote in message m... In the Midwest, you can usually follow a line of thunderstorms (albeit at a distance) and still make your destination even if a bit late. Many people just park it for a few hours and let the storms roll through, then continue their trip in the beautiful clear skies behind the front. That works reasonably well when you are traveling Westbound since you can usually fly within 50 miles of the line of storms, let the storms go overhead, and continue on. Usually this will result in about a 2-3 hour delay. If you are headed Eastbound, however, on a trip of say 300 miles, you may well lose the whole day since storms tend to travel about 30 knots and thus it could take 10 hours for the path to clear and there could even be another line of storms behind it or perhaps it is night IMC when the storms finally clear and you are probably not rested enough to try night IMC at that point. -------------------- Richard Kaplan, CFII www.flyimc.com |
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