Stupid Question, (I think).

[414Flyer]

414flyer,

At one point, I was looking into getting into seeding. How did you like it? It looks like pretty interesting work. How did you guys monitor and determine your success with the seeding?

Thanks

It is definitely some interesting flying that you will not do anywhere else. Do not expect to fly a lot though. From April to September last year, I flew about 90 hours on storms, and half of that was last week of august to first week september. Either you dont fly for month, then you fly your butt off when there are lots of storms.

Right now is a harder time to get hired for cloud seeding, at least with my old company, since some states and countries have cut back funding for it.

Its not something you can make a career from really, but you learn more about storms, (although I will never pretend to be an expert about them), and have some fun flying.

The results are not something that you can see really from short term, although some say you can see a different in the storm. At the most, it gives about a long term increase of about 10 percent more rain, when done right and at the right times.

The company I worked for has a webpage about it if you want to learn more. http://www.weathermod.com/wxmod.htm

 

[bobbysamd]

It's probably Dr. Fujita, http://www.tornadoproject.com/fujitascale/fscale.htm .

 

[Timebuilder]

Ah, the guy with the Fujita Scale.

Thought so.

 

[hyper]

414flyer,

Sounds very interesting and some fun flying! Thanks for the insight.

Fly safe