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Old 12th Jun 2006, 07:21
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Few Cloudy

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old trick

One old trick (in cruise) is to put the scale to 80nm., tilt the radar until ground echoes are visible at 40nm. and then any echo inside the 40 mile range is a CB. After that you can alter tilt and range as needed to deal with the CB so found.

This works in mountainous areas too, though there you need to get ground echoes to 30nm.

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