Originally Posted by
6string
One of the best times to get comfortable with your radar is to turn it on when the weather is good and spend time working with tilt/gain/features. VFR days with isolated cells are an excellent way to correlate what you can see outside with what the radar is painting inside. Bodies of water, big cities, and shorelines can provide opportunites for learning tilt management and ranging.
Yes ! until you get a job in a 121 carrier............ you don't get to choose the VFR days......hahah (just kidding) and again the CRJ has a pretty good radar, I don't know how some people can complain about it, I mean, either they were flying a B777 before or this is the first time they use an airborne radar and expect everything to be perfect and automatic. The CRJ radar does a pretty damn good job painting cells in the "shadow" with once and a while atenuation (minimal). Anybody here used to the old Bendix 140s and 160s? (they would know what I'm talking about)