Originally Posted by
Airsupport
yes you dont want to over paint either. i guess i could explain a little more. once you start to paint a cell and you see it leaving the ground clutter and moving towards the plane then you can adjust the tilt up and see exactly how high it is. but then again if i am flying into memphis and all i see are a bunch of magenta blobs i will leave the radar where it is at and fly around them. i am really not interested in seeing which ones i dont need to go around. and we have had a lot of magenta blobs lately down here.
Yes you are 100% right. But sometimes you have to make a choice. You need to know what you can go through. Case in point, the "level 3/4 storm" over the OM in PHL. If someone won't go through a level 3/4 at altitude why would they go through it at 2000' AGL?
and for your bonus question i am going to say go to the mfd menu, select airports, and then if there is an airport where you are painting red then its probably ground clutter or a city.
Yes that works, but easiest way is cities don't attenuate. With your way there might still be a cell on top of the airport/vor
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