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Airbubba
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Rockytop, Tennessee, USA
Posts: 1,940
If they were on top, the moon was up last night while AF 477 was in flight.
I hit the ITCZ mostly in Asia. There are cells that tower in the moonlight but are all but invisible on radar. You can be cruising along fat dumb and happy and suddenly find your self in a cell. I try to stay high but keep a good stall buffet margin in case the bumps start.
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What sort of radar management settings are you talking about when you say the cells "are all but invisible on radar"?
At the recommended settings many cells are "all but invisible on radar". For that reason alone most guys don't use the recommended settings and instead set the radar at it's most sensitive settings and work backwards, towards less sensitive settings, from there.