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Brian Abraham

11th August 2005 08:34

Ts in the terminal area

Wondering what guidance your ops manuals give you heavy iron drivers when thunderstorms are playing in the terminal area. Besides planning for alternates/tempo, inter holding fuel that is.

Blue Skies,
Brian

Pilot Pete

11th August 2005 22:17

Avoid them. Simple as that. If you planned ahead for expected weather you should have enough fuel to hold until they pass or else divert.

PP

mbcxharm

11th August 2005 22:30

Part A of our Ops manual has some guidance in the form of a table as to how much to avoid thunderstorms and weather radar returns by. Basically it recommends (below 20000ft) 5 miles laterally (or 10 if it looks really nasty!) and overfly by 5000ft.

That's a bit of a simplification of what it says mind...

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