Originally Posted by
2StgTurbine
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.
Wouldn’t the opposite be true? The downwind side is where all of the things coming out of the storm usually live (hail, turbulence, etc).