Hey, MzeroA nation.
Jason here in the studio this evening
actually getting ready for our Online Ground School
member-only webinar.
Something we do each and every week
with our Online Ground School members trial
to our Online Ground Schools in the description below
if you wish to check that out.
What we'll be talking about with our Online Ground School members
is flight planning using for flight
and we're playing a fictitious flight but using real-world weather.
Which brings at the point, composite versus lowest tilt radar.
Do we know the difference
and what does it mean to our flight planning?
Allow me to demonstrate here.
Our flight I'll be doing tonight with our members
is from KLAX to KBFL, Bakersfield California,
home of California Aeronautical University.
Some super folks and fantastic kids out there.
Can be the future of aviation, no doubt.
Let's do it at 10,000 feet and N23MZ
which should be coming home soon.
Thank you for everybody reaching out
asking about when 23MZ is coming home.
Not soon enough but soon as the weather
gets better in Oshkosh, we're going to get it.
Anyways, here's our route when 10,000 where some mountains have flown
of route very similar to this before but here's what I want to show you.
If we come to the top left here and I want to look at radar composite
and I go and I load the composite radar and I take a look at it and I go,
"There is a lot going on.
This doesn't look like a very promising flight."
But here's what I want you to remember here:
Composite-- and this is in plain English now.
Composite radar is showing me simply really just moisture in the air.
This may not-- what you're seeing here,
may not actually be making it to the ground.
This could be just precipitation with it waiting to fall
and could fall by the time we make this flight.
It's there but it may or may not be making it to the ground.
How we can determine a lot of that is if we then go
to something called our lowest tilt radar.
You see what you see on lowest tilt is making its way down to the ground.
So, what you see on lowest tilt is precipitation that is falling
unless its [unin] or something, it's making its way
all the way down to the ground.
Whereas if we go back and look at composite,
it looks nastier than it really is and this could become very nasty.
I'm not downplaying this.
I'm not saying, "If it's green, go through it,"
that is not what I'm saying here.
It needs to be on a case-by-case basis.
But looking at composite and then comparing it to lowest tilt,
this to me could be a storm that's slowly dying itself out.
It's the evening time now as we're filming this
and recording this here.
This storm can be on its kind of way out, we'll have to watch it throughout the day
and through the evening to see what really happens but composite.
Composite radar is showing all that moisture in the air
that very well could become actual rain in this cumulonimbus clouds
that could be falling here soon.
Lowest tilt is precipitation that's actually making it down to the ground.
Make sure you use that in some for flight training.
We're talking about this entire flight and planning this entire flight
in the webinar this evening with our Online Ground School members,
it's a member-only webinar.
So, if you'd like to participate, there's a link for a two-week trial
down below this video, check it out.
Private, instrument, commercial, FOI training, all included in there.
Listen, can't wait to read your comments below,
can't wait to see you inside the Online Ground School.
Enjoy the rest of your day and most importantly,
remember, a good pilot is always learning.
Have a great day, guys. We'll see you.
Hey, everyone. Jason here again.
I hope you loved that video.
And, I know you'll love our Online Ground School.
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they'll be sharing that in the webinars on Monday night as well.
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