Tag: Weather
What are You Looking at?
While this title may sound like the opening line of an ensuing barroom brawl, my aim to address radar. Just as your airborne radar...
The “All Weather” Machine
The very nature of commercial flight and the capabilities of transport category aircraft combine to make flight into the wild blue on a daily...
Pathfinding in Convective Weather – Who wants to go first?
"Express 4121, you're the first to go..."
The term pathfinding, as it relates to convective weather and air traffic, is one I have not come across...
Derecho!
Last month, I wrote about large-scale, long-lived, convective complexes; Mesoscale Convective Systems (MCS) and Mesoscale Convective Complexes (MCC). To review, as a pilot, you...
Look Mom! It’s a Mothership!
Mothership is not a term you’ll find in the weather glossary, but it is a term used by some to describe the appearance of...
