Originally Posted by
glendalegoon
of all the statements so far, compressor stall has the answer.
you should have asked him. why didn't you?
isn't it possible that he was using the radar to make a quick search for buildups before giving the answer based upon climbout visual observation?
Actually, I did ask him. He was playing with the tilt and a few small green splotches appeared. He used a straight forward formula based on tilt and distance to green splotches(it has been a while now so I don't remember the details). I just thought that I would ask on here as well as I was a bit skeptical but not sure. Hope you don't mind me trying to get a second opinion.
It did not appear to be a night of any buildups. There was midlevel cloud below with very little but some light with no real depth perception. I will say that we were flying over an area where public TV had said would have rain on the ground.