Originally Posted by ciderman
Nothing attracts lightning like 3 miles of wire out the back of a Canberra.
Ouch......
I agree that IS asking for it..... Glad to know you lived to tell the tale.
Originally Posted by llondel
If you're projecting a beam of ionised particles then you might provide a favoured path for lightning to flow. However, I wouldn't want to be near a radar set powerful enough to do that.
There are no radar sets powerful enough to do that.... microwave radiation is not ionising radiation... certainly not at the level transmitted by a weather radar.
Originally Posted by Mungo Man
No real way to show lightning... apart from the LSS (Lightning Sensor System) on my aircraft which is independent from the Wx radar, and shows lightning within 100nm radius.
Mungo Man, you triggered what must be a 20-year old memory, called StormScope. Good to see it still exists and still serves a useful purpose.
Anybody has any more info about what appears to be an urban legend (an aerial one in this case) ?