Often it takes an enquiry or two to find out what your colleagues have been taught or are looking for/at if their radar settings dont make sense.
Explaining in a nice mannered way to crew new to it all the advantages/disadvantages of 'auto tilt' v 'manual tilt' doesnt take much effort and often times the light bulb comes on.
Look low to high, isolate the weather from the ground returns, use a lower scale for accurate close in avoidance, use all the cues you can to establish how high and powerful the TS system (lightning, radar return shape size & intensity, ADF needles, radio static & interference, st elmos fire, ragged edged rotors, get a sighting on a TS head at night by putting your nose on the combing with the cockpit lights down, watch for indications of high altitude precip & ice crystals in ypur headlights, watch for SAT increases) prepare yourselves, the jet & cabin and dont overfly any TS cell at night in particular - any hint of a return anywhere close to level tilt at high level especially at night is an avoid
I am always happy to do the ITCZ/TS slalom course.
Last edited by ramble on; 6th Apr 2013 at 02:20.