Weather radar today

[Matt Sheil]

Hi Guys,
            Thought you might enjoy some shots of my weather radar today from the Sunshine coast to Sydney Bankstown.
Storms ran for 100nm's and we diverted 20nm to stay out of them.
Some of the shots are blury due to slight turbulence, also the lightning strikes can be seen on the lower screen.
Also a shot of Mooloolabah beach where we just spent the last week getting a tan. ;-)
Enjoy

[Qavion]

Those fluffy white things don't look so bad until you see the magenta cores on radar )

[Phil Bunch]

In spite of the clouds and ominous radar images, thoughts of warm, sunny beaches and suntans are VERY attractive to those of us who live on the top half of the planet (grins).

It's about 10 degrees C here in northern New England (near Portland, Maine), and snow is forecast for the next 4 days in a row.

Perhaps some place with fewer extremes of weather would be ideal - I keep thinking about the islands of the South Pacific at this time of year, with spring several months away...

Thanks for the photos - very interesting!

[Hardy Heinlin]

Hi Matt,

on that last photo, are those many little yellow crosses detected lightning strikes or estimated strikes or ...?


Cheers,

|-|ardy

[John Davis PC]

Nice Pics Matt ... Thanks

[Matt Sheil]

Hi Matt,

on that last photo, are those many little yellow crosses detected lightning strikes or estimated strikes or ...?


Cheers,

|-|ardy

Actual lightning strikes on the ground, this is more reliable than the weather radar for turbulence, you would fly through magenta on a radar before you fly through a patch of lightning strikes, I cant believe the airlines have not yet adopted this technology yet.
Weather radar shows moisture content only, storm scope shows lightning which needs vertical movement

[Matt Sheil]

How storm scope works

Stormscope Weather Mapping Systems were the first airborne instruments developed specifically to detect and map thunderstorms by analyzing the radiated signals of electrical discharges from storm cells. During the cumulus stage of a thunderstorm, storm cells are usually precipitation-free, and weather radar is unable to show activity. Stormscope, by detecting the electrical activity already present as the storm builds, provides an accurate view of areas that should be avoided. Stormscope processes both azimuth and range to determine the location and intensity of dangerous thunderstorm cells – then presents the findings in real-time.

[Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers]

Airlines are about statistics.
The chance that the plane ahead of you runs into the lightning and warns you is high enough.

[Hardy Heinlin]

Planes ahead of you should better be fitted with lightning radar, otherwise, if they crash, their warning will never reach you :-)

[James Lacey]

Hunter Region....near Cessnock?

Hope you had a good feed of those beautiful Mooloolabah prawns while you were up there, mate!

[John Golin]

Crikey... the technology pays off!

Incidentally they had a dusting of snow down south today down to 900 metres...

[Holger Wende]

Hi,

How does the storm scope measure the range of a lightning strike from a single maesurement/observation point?

Holger

[Matt Sheil]

Hi,

How does the storm scope measure the range of a lightning strike from a single maesurement/observation point?

Holger

http://www.as.l-3com.com/downloads/brochures__pilots_guides/wx500_pg.pdf

[Peter Sagar]

Matt,

Interesting power setting there; 19.5"/2500 - at 10,000' I gather? Or is it full throttle/2500? Never used to use such high RPM for cruise.

Regardless, sweet pictures. Far better than the Mark 1 radar I used to use in the Queenie ("Mark 1" = eyeballs). Mind you, at night when I did all of my flying, at least you can relatively easily see where the lightning strikes, except for when heavily embedded.

Please post more piccies when you can.

Peter.

[Matt Sheil]

Always use 2500 RPM now
Continental and Lycoming have both found that operations at 2300 or 2100 RPM can be harmfull to the long term operation of the engine and have released paper work to support this.
Also these are running LOP (Lean of Peak) by 20deg. and CHT's of 50 to 75 deg cooler

Time you flew again Peter alot is changing with engine OWT (old wives tales) and the engine manufacturers are starting to admit errors of the past  

[Peter Sagar]

Always use 2500 RPM now
Continental and Lycoming have both found that operations at 2300 or 2100 RPM can be harmfull to the long term operation of the engine and have released paper work to support this.
Also these are running LOP (Lean of Peak) by 20deg. and CHT's of 50 to 75 deg cooler

Time you flew again Peter alot is changing with engine OWT (old wives tales) and the engine manufacturers are starting to admit errors of the past  

Ironic to be learning the latest on piston engine handling in a B747 sim forum!    

Cheers,
Peter.

[Matt Sheil]

Ok this one just for you Peter since you like Queen Airs and this forum is about the Queen of the Skies

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[Peter Sagar]

Ok this one just for you Peter since you like Queen Airs and this forum is about the Queen of the Skies

http://www.aso.com/listings/spec/ViewAd.aspx?id=126990&listingType=true&IsInternal=True&dealerid

That would be a sweet ride. The B88 is the pressurised version of the B80, sort of a piston King Air. This one has such low airframe hours, plus a low price, kind of makes me wonder what's wrong with it? I would love to buy it, but I got a new house on this year's budget instead.

Did you check out the antique weather radar? I think it requires a hood, and a hand crank for the sweep   :lol:  :lol:  :lol:

Peter.