Morne
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So I flew down to Myrtle Beach Sunday and came back Monday. First leg of the trip I waited a bit to let the big line of storms pass, then took off and picked my way through. My Strikefinder really earned its pay. Lots of requests to ATC for deviations, which they were plenty happy to provide. There was even another aircraft with weather radar who helped me find a way that was beyond Greensboro Approach's radar distance to see. All in all a very productive trip from which I learned a lot. You can see all the detouring I did from a direct path on this flightaware link:
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N9231X/history/20130603/1715Z/KMYR/KBCB
Funny thing, the worst turbulence I experienced was well away from the storms during the second leg of my trip. I was somewhere around Charlestown, WV when I flew into a cloud that made me thankful for seatbelts!
Yet for all of the time I spent in actual I logged no approaches. The ceilings were above what you needed for a visual approach. It's just that at 8-9K MSL you were in and out of the clouds a lot.
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N9231X/history/20130603/1715Z/KMYR/KBCB
Funny thing, the worst turbulence I experienced was well away from the storms during the second leg of my trip. I was somewhere around Charlestown, WV when I flew into a cloud that made me thankful for seatbelts!
Yet for all of the time I spent in actual I logged no approaches. The ceilings were above what you needed for a visual approach. It's just that at 8-9K MSL you were in and out of the clouds a lot.