Comments on: Thunderstorms and ATC -It’s Working* http://blog.aopa.org/leadingedge/?p=75 A place to discuss safety-of-flight issues, procedures, techniques, and judgment. Sat, 18 May 2013 13:52:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Cary Alburn http://blog.aopa.org/leadingedge/?p=75&cpage=1#comment-4254 Cary Alburn Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:59:09 +0000 http://blog.aopa.org/asfblog/?p=75#comment-4254 Agreed–it’s so much better now, since current ATC and FSS radar is so much better than it was 30 years ago, at showing weather. I’m looking forward to datalink, which I don’t have, to supplement what I can see and what they’re telling me. But meanwhile, today’s controllers have the equipment and almost universally the desire to be helpful–but we have to work together, because sometimes what we see out the windshield doesn’t show up on their screens at all.

Cary

]]> By: Karen Anderson http://blog.aopa.org/leadingedge/?p=75&cpage=1#comment-3917 Karen Anderson Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:23:28 +0000 http://blog.aopa.org/asfblog/?p=75#comment-3917 In my experience, flying IFR, I have found nearly 100% of controllers most helpful and willing to suggest headings to avoid precip. They have also accepted my requests for deviations from assigned routes or headings for weather avoidance to the best of their ability, given their primary responsibility to separate aircraft. Controllers have the equipment to see the big picture, and we, as pilots, can often see the immediate picture through our windshields. Working together we have a great system for safe weather flying!!

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