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Some of us went to the Derek Zoolander school of "just tilt down until you paint a little bit of the ground at the edge and there you go"Originally Posted by cskafan123
Bingo! Finally someone said something meaningful. Back in the day airlines were using Archie Tremmel Weather Radar course, where tilt management was taught properly. Many pilots do not use the till in a meaningful way. 1:60 rule along with proper gain is a great way to estimate the cloud tops. But we have to remember that the radar top( what radar detects) and the actual cloud top differ. Archie recommend to add 20% on top of the radar top when calculating cloud heights. Now if one must fly over the weather it has to be at least 5000' above the actual top. Everything else calls for deviation, preferably on the upwind side to reduce the effect of the turbulence.