tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10000144.post9158105584877362605..comments2024-03-13T09:47:40.487+00:00Comments on Cockpit Conversation: Not Flying TonightAviatrixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13634111275860140084noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10000144.post-212633386984767002009-03-10T17:26:00.000+00:002009-03-10T17:26:00.000+00:00Flying through a thunderstorm is a bad idea... I'v...Flying through a thunderstorm is a bad idea... I've unintentionally done it (or at the very least I was waaaayy to close). This was a number of years ago in Texas flying north out of San Antonio at night in a small jet with no radar so I had to trust ATC.<BR/><BR/>We also had a car totaled (along with about half of the people in our city) due to softball sized hail... this was also in Texas.<BR/><BR/>And finally, we were in the middle of a huge storm in Florida much like the one you describe. One bolt of lightning hit so close that it blew one circuit breaker in our apartment!<BR/><BR/>(And just because I have two stories from Texas... well lets just say I completely agree with your assessment that Texas is just a bit "different" than the rest of the world.)Ehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14381269942646209034noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10000144.post-65097130798328097162009-03-10T03:12:00.000+00:002009-03-10T03:12:00.000+00:00@gps_direct:If my memory hasn't failed me, Sulako ...@gps_direct:<BR/><BR/>If my memory hasn't failed me, Sulako wrote a post a few years ago about how he wound up flying through a t-storm. Obviously he lived to tell about it, but the experience didn't sound fun.<BR/><BR/>There are also some crazy buggers out there who deliberately fly into convective weather for research purposes....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10000144.post-73022595327009109862009-03-10T02:04:00.000+00:002009-03-10T02:04:00.000+00:00"That would be quite something to fly through."I'm...<I>"That would be quite something to fly through."</I><BR/><BR/>I'm thinking "...to fly through" in this sentence might be replaced with:<BR/><BR/>"...be tossed around in." or,<BR/><BR/>"...be flung about in" or perhaps more likely,<BR/><BR/>"...to have survived."<BR/><BR/>I can still remember watching a wall of anvil heads coming out of Kansas for southwest Missouri as a child. Glad you were on the ground during one of those world famous storms.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10000144.post-62846036347764241272009-03-09T03:37:00.000+00:002009-03-09T03:37:00.000+00:00MMM yes... Texas T-storms. I've seen a front send...MMM yes... Texas T-storms. I've seen a front sending waves along a line between Dallas (+5C) and Houston (+28C). It took three hours to get airborne from IAH then we had to turn north and pick our way through the line...<BR/><BR/>A nicer gig to just sit it out in the hotel!<BR/><BR/>Fly safe.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com