The eternal dilemma; to fly or not to fly?
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The weather here in St Louis is awful. Tornado warnings, severe thunderstorms, and it's raining sideways. This seems like the perfect weather to see some of those electrical discharge effects that Nick puts into his products, something I have yet to see myself.
The problem is this is exactly the sort of weather you shouldn't fly in, so I really don't want to.
Am I alone in this dilemma? Would the rest of you just go for it?
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It's just a matter of convincing yourself it's acceptable. I would myself take one of those into consideration to still feel it's "realistic":
- Find some real current flights around the area and follow one of the routes, they will most often try to avoid the weather, but there is never a guarantee that they will fully succeed. Dodging the storms + a possible alternate landing is also fun.
- Treat the simulator as a simulation exercise and not real flying for a change. Bad weather can always catch you off-guard so you are just doing an exercise in a simulator to be ready and understand what awaits you in this specific plane when everything goes sideways.
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The weather here in St Louis is awful. Tornado warnings, severe thunderstorms, and it's raining sideways. This seems like the perfect weather to see some of those electrical discharge effects that Nick puts into his products, something I have yet to see myself.
The problem is this is exactly the sort of weather you shouldn't fly in, so I really don't want to.
Am I alone in this dilemma? Would the rest of you just go for it?
@jmarkows bobby always kept an eye out for weather conditions not so far away from what you described thereabove. He would methodically take note of the weather conditions and the adverse effects it had on various elements vis-a-vis flights, ground activities, ground radar efficacy etc…and especially the ground radar efficacy in that. Ofcourse there was no saying whether it was wise of him to get his ol’ dawg airborne in those conditions but thats what made him most likely the only suitable skillset for that job. Not all of those fancy fliers can really make into and out of that dirt road with that load of kalashnikovs you see?