Weather Radar Tutorial: How to Use It & How to Avoid Weather!

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👉👉 --- INFO --- 👈👈

A detailed tutorial providing you with some of the basics of the operation of the weather radar and on how to avoid adverse weather. Please keep in mind: this video is intended for flight simulation ONLY!

📄📄 --- DOCUMENTATION --- 📄📄

For a more detailed view on weather radar systems and how to recognize various patterns that are portrayed in real world weather radar images, check out some of the documentation that I used for this video. Keep in mind that in the real world a much larger diversity of weather systems are present which generate characteristic shapes on the weather radar image. In flight simulation, not all of that is possible.

👉👉 --- Timestamps --- 👈👈

👉 - Intro: 0:00
👉 - Background theory: 0:51
👉 -- How does the weather radar work?: 1:13
👉 -- Info about thunderstorms & cumulonimbus clouds: 3:35
👉 -- How to scan a thunderstorm: 6:28
👉 -- Common weather radar images: 10:01
👉 - How to operate the weather panel: 12:11
👉 - How to avoid adverse weather: 19:48
👉 -- Flight preparation: 19:58
👉 -- Weather separation minima: 21:00
👉 -- Practical example of avoiding weather: 21:35
👉 -- Calculating cloud tops: 31:49
👉- Outro: 34:17

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[AviationPro]

Note: obviously I made a mental maths mistake in the calculating cloud tops part at 31:49. Nevertheless, the end result is actually correct :)

[ACW-]

Very simple lenguage, good voice, and the graphics were the best for me, thank you.

[petemac]

Great job! I never really understood the workings of the weather radar on the PMDG. Your explanation will come in very handy for me. Thanks.

[sasithagunasekara]

Indeed a fruitful explanation, Thank you very much

[miri]

This video is... AWESOME 👌🏼
Thank you for putting on the description in what minute can you find each section....!!

[bankebiharishukla]

best and comprehensive video ever seen thanks dear sir for your great explanation skill.

[halalisanilushaba]

Dude thank u so much, I'm doing an exam on radio. Aids n I really didn't understand this stuff, ur the bomb

[Carltheproducer]

this is a phenomenal solid instructional video about WX radar. THANK YOU!

[jatinthakur]

very nice very helpful and very very informative and enjoyable

[arkatube]

Brilliant, thank you very much for your work

[martin]

Congratulations, this is a great video, thank you.

[andypiano]

Excellent tutorial! Thank you for the clear explanation.

[salomaoensslin]

This tutorial is really good. The explanation is very clear and simple enough to understand everything.

[fsfan]

Dank weer Evert voor je duidelijke en goede uitleg van deze tutorial.

[EJ]

Awesome video. A very good explanation for the WR system and how to avoid the weather.

[hubermarcelo]

The best tutorial I've ever seen!! Good job 👌

[GilbertoNovaes]

Excellent Video. About the first example of Cloud Heights, I noticed you said -2° x 100 x 20NM = - 4.000ft. However when you do the first part calculation you say -2°x 100 = 2.000. The final calculation is right anyways but at the middle I think I missed something. Could you explain how did you find 2.000? Thank you So Much for this amazing video. You rock

[azizc]

Simply the best wx rdr explanation i ve seen everywhere. As always awesome vids. Thnxxx....👍

[steffenleo]

Good Day Sir... Great video 👌👍👍👍👍👍....Thanks you so much for your effort and time to make such great video...hope to see more in future... 🙏🙏🙏

[MrSqueeze]

Beautiful video, great explanation. I like how u took your time, it couldn’t get better mate. I myself I’m just starting my flying career and I’m lucky to be flying the 737NG in few weeks. My instructor sucks at explanation, had to look elsewhere. Great video. Cheers