Hey fellow aviators
I'd like to get your opinion about the use of the airborne weather radar.Two days ago i was flying(737NG) at FL350 on the 40NM scale with the Tilt on Auto it was indicating -2 and the whole picture was just weather Red,yellow and some green and it was in such a way that we couldn't even differentiate the ground returns from weather,knowing that the weather in that part of the world(africa) doesn't cover the entire route the only options were to divert much longer or return back,my skipper then set the radar on Manual ant selected a Tilt on 0 then +1 and we had minimal returns and we carried on the flight as planned and there was no weather as opposed to what the Auto tilt was showing.My question is setting the Tilt on 0 when at cruising level the optimum way to asses weather?Any comment is appreciated.Thanks