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:
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If you can read this in English, thank a soldier.


"Richard Kaplan" wrote in message
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"Jim Carter" wrote in message
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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.


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Richard Kaplan, CFII

www.flyimc.com