DFW Metar 0841Z on 10April2008

[instructordude]

did anyone see the radar when that stuff was west of midland last night. Solid wall of red a few houndred miles NE/SW and about 30 miles thick.

It was bad looking but you could have gone over the top of it. I've been over worse. Capt made me deviate.

 

[KCPilot]

It was bad looking but you could have gone over the top of it. I've been over worse.

That's true, you GoJet guys will fly in anything for some PIC!

 

[kj6991]

the cell over Midland we deviated from last night looked pretty nasty.

 

[dispatchguy]

I've been over worse.

Who was she?

 

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it's only a 12 knot gust factor..

It has to be blowing up some runway in Dallas. They got runways pointing everywhere.

ATR should handle it, no problem.

 

[Coool Hand Luke]

It was bad looking but you could have gone over the top of it. I've been over worse. Capt made me deviate.

That's because he know's what your SE drift down altitude is and he also's know's that GE farms out the CF34 engine blades to some company down in Mexico paying 5 pesos and hour. Seems there may have been some QA problems, imagine that. Wouldn't give me the warm fuzzys either if I was topping some nasty super cells.

 

[airlineworthy]

It was bad looking but you could have gone over the top of it. I've been over worse. Capt made me deviate.

You're probably the type that then follows his overflight with a pirep of Severe Turbulence at FL380.

Do you even know how high you should be when you top a 40000' cell?

 

[learflyer]

'If you die because of thunderstorms, you're funeral is on a sunny day.'

 

[GuppyWN]

It was bad looking but you could have gone over the top of it. I've been over worse. Capt made me deviate.

Dude. The captain "made you deviate" because he's not an idiot. No way in hell you could have "gone over the top of it" in your RJ. That is unless you cosider being in a thunderstorm or upper outflow at 410 a good choice.

Gup

 

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No, he was in the Super ATR....

It will top fog. I've done it.