Originally Posted by 2StgTurbine

I have flown with plenty of people who are scared of anything on the radar. I recently flew with an FO who wanted to clear a cell by 80 miles! Perhaps it was years of flying on the east coast with restricted airspace, but sometimes you do need to pick your way through a line of weather stretching from the Gulf to the Great Lakes. Not all radar returns are convective cells, and it does take some experience.

A common thing I have seen with those pilots is failing to take the winds into account. When they are going between cells, they try to go right in the middle of them. I would rather be 20 miles away from the downwind cell and 10 miles from the upwind cell rather than 15 miles from both.