Thunderstorm on take off path...

[one shot ST]

Last month I've done a very short flight, but the enviroment was very bad from the take off airport to the destination...

this is a picture from the cockpit just prior to start take off roll...

this is what a radar meteo showed to me.....

small video..

 

[kmussack]

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After takeing off on 35 what was your vector for departure.

 

[one shot ST]

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you can see the green line on the navigation display to the left...about 290.. so as soos as after take off this was my way with a left turn

 

[notquiteright]

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Looks like a typical summer thunderstorm complex at DFW. Once the ATR I was in had to go to Abilene to circle around a complex of storms to then sneak-up on SPS.

Talk about cant get there from here!

 

[one shot ST]

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I have been in Dallas Forth Worth few years ago..... I remember well cells like this.....

 

[rrflyer]

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Don't deviate PENETRATE!!!!

 

[Maggot]

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Which COCK-pit were you speaking of....the airplane or the one at the very bottom. That could brew up a storm as well.

 

[flyboy]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: rrflyer</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Don't deviate PENETRATE!!!! </div></div>

Back in my BE1900 days, it was said that the pax paid for a ride, now they will get one.

 

[one shot ST]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: rrflyer</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Don't deviate PENETRATE!!!!</div></div>

sometimes you have no choice..... so, PENETRATE....

but much better deviate....

 

[one shot ST]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Goldie</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Which COCK-pit were you speaking of....the airplane or the one at the very bottom. That could brew up a storm as well.</div></div>

is an AIRBUS A 330

 

[kmussack]

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I remember hearing a story about a DC-3 in a thunder storm.
The up-draft was so severe that they got green lights on their gear. The upward acceleration was so great it over-rode the hydraulics and lowered the gear.

 

[Maggot]

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My dad was a captain with TWA in the old days (50's) and I can remember sitting in his lap in the cockpit of DC3 in a thunder storm and watching balls of blue electricity rollaround on the instrument panel. i guess it was the intensity of the ionization. Brings back memories. I also got to 'fly' a Constellation.

In those days when he went to the airport for business Id go down to the hangers and play with the mechanics and crawl all around in her landing gear an all over the plane.

Things have changed.

Thanks for the post.

 

[one shot ST]

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Hello....... You are talking of the Sant Elmo's fire.... visible on the windows of the airplane due different static electricy between airplane and external enviroment.... when you can see this probably you can hit by a lighting....

 

[shooterman_zero17]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: flyboy</div><div class="ubbcode-body">
Back in my BE1900 days, it was said that the pax paid for a ride, now they will get one.

</div></div>

The same holds true in a DHC8-200....dodging afternoon storm clusters between KCLT and KSAV on descent was the scariest ass flight I've ever been on. And I love flying. No way would you make me do that again.

On the topic of St. Elmo's Fire and the like, I absolutely ROFL'd at the stories my grandpa used to tell from when he was a Boxcar pilot...one being when their chief in the hold got chased around by what they deducted was lightning.

 

[Fred_C_Dobbs]

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At least you could paint the ground behind the cell.

That image reminds me of a captain I flew with at American Eagle. I swear he tried to play connect-the-dots with the big red splotches. He damn near did a wing-over in a SAAB-340 trying to thread the needle between two towering Qs coming out of Ft Wayne once.

Yee-Haaa! Ride 'em, cowboy!

 

[Graham]

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That would make me nervous, even in a large plane like that one.

Usually when my wx radar or stormscope lights up I put <span style="text-decoration: underline">down</span> the camera.

But then again I've lost most of nerve for IFR when facing those kinds of conditions.

 

[ArcticLight]

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This is why I fly R/C.

 

[N2DADARK]

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<--(Maintainers Point of View) "Your in a plane, GAWD, just fly above it." But then again I do work on 130's so.....

 

[rrflyer]

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130's aint flying above anything!

 

[flyboy]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: rrflyer</div><div class="ubbcode-body">130's aint flying above anything! </div></div>

 

[Graham]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: flyboy</div><div class="ubbcode-body">130's aint flying above anything! </div></div>LOL! And if you barrel-roll them they will pop rivets.

 

[flyboy]

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Had a friend that worked on the older models and said they were flown hard and put up wet. Rivets were replaced like changing the oil.