I hate to contribute to such an old post, but I will. I flew the E-145 for 7 years and the radar was nothing but guess work. Now I am flying a "Big" jet, I can see weather 80-120 miles ahead of me without ground clutter.
The E-145 radar interpretation is an art rather than a science. I remember flying over the rockies with a new FO and seeing returns and thinking the returns were just mountains where they were expected to be. FO thought they were TS. I said naw, they are just ground returns. Only to get our a$$ kicked by TS over said mountains. My bad.
Now that I have had time to work with real radar, I can say that the EMB radar pretty much sucks.
The E-145 radar interpretation is an art rather than a science. I remember flying over the rockies with a new FO and seeing returns and thinking the returns were just mountains where they were expected to be. FO thought they were TS. I said naw, they are just ground returns. Only to get our a$$ kicked by TS over said mountains. My bad.
Now that I have had time to work with real radar, I can say that the EMB radar pretty much sucks.
