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Old 21st Jul 2019, 10:33
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Krallu
 
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Without Weather Radar?

Hi,

before on board weather radars where invented and installed in aircrafts there was commercial flights beeing made.
How did they manage to avoid CB clouds? If they where inside clouds they could easily enter a CB cloud without knowing, or didnt they?

Anyone who has the experience or knows how commercial airliners did manage to fly in IMC back then without weather radars?

Second question for you guys is, what if the weather radar gets U/S before or during the flight. Lets pretend that happens. What do you do in case of instable weather and risk for CB clouds? How do you manage?

Thanks!
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