Comments on: Is Stormscope useless ? http://www.plasticpilot.net/blog/2008/09/20/is-stormscope-useless/ General Aviation and Aviation In General Sun, 14 Mar 2010 09:23:43 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: David Megginson http://www.plasticpilot.net/blog/2008/09/20/is-stormscope-useless/comment-page-1/#comment-8956 David Megginson Sun, 28 Sep 2008 14:14:22 +0000 http://www.plasticpilot.net/blog/?p=896#comment-8956 Shortly after I installed a Stormscope in my Warrior (2004, I think), I managed to use it to fly right into the middle of a summer storm. It wasn't a full-blown CB (fortunately for me), but it was already at the stage where there was lightning *within* the cloud (not cloud-cloud or cloud-ground yet), and the forces of the rising + falling air columns inside that cloud were unbelievable. A couple of years later, I started the Wikipedia article you pointed to, and a specialist from Environment Canada came and added a lot more useful info to it. Now, I use the Stormscope to check if there's lightning places I don't expect it flying IFR; if I do expect storms, I try to stay visual. Shortly after I installed a Stormscope in my Warrior (2004, I think), I managed to use it to fly right into the middle of a summer storm. It wasn’t a full-blown CB (fortunately for me), but it was already at the stage where there was lightning *within* the cloud (not cloud-cloud or cloud-ground yet), and the forces of the rising + falling air columns inside that cloud were unbelievable.

A couple of years later, I started the Wikipedia article you pointed to, and a specialist from Environment Canada came and added a lot more useful info to it. Now, I use the Stormscope to check if there’s lightning places I don’t expect it flying IFR; if I do expect storms, I try to stay visual.

]]> By: PlasticPilot http://www.plasticpilot.net/blog/2008/09/20/is-stormscope-useless/comment-page-1/#comment-8484 PlasticPilot Sun, 21 Sep 2008 19:24:07 +0000 http://www.plasticpilot.net/blog/?p=896#comment-8484 JB, did you had the CB in sight when you decided to deviate ? JB, did you had the CB in sight when you decided to deviate ?

]]> By: jb http://www.plasticpilot.net/blog/2008/09/20/is-stormscope-useless/comment-page-1/#comment-8415 jb Sat, 20 Sep 2008 21:23:05 +0000 http://www.plasticpilot.net/blog/?p=896#comment-8415 Hi Plastic, On a recent trip in a C182T Stormscope-equipped, it was amazing to see a couple of strikes appear exactly over the magenta line of our flight plan, some miles ahead of our position as shown in the G1000 MFD. Even if we were an VFR flight, it was very reassuring to be able deviate on short order, just to keep a sensible distance to that particular thunderstorm... Definitely useful! Regards, Hi Plastic,

On a recent trip in a C182T Stormscope-equipped, it was amazing to see a couple of strikes appear exactly over the magenta line of our flight plan, some miles ahead of our position as shown in the G1000 MFD.

Even if we were an VFR flight, it was very reassuring to be able deviate on short order, just to keep a sensible distance to that particular thunderstorm…

Definitely useful!

Regards,

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