Flying through thunderstorm at night

[Wolfala]

Found this little gem over on flight aware. Think i'd be changing out my shorts if I were near this monster. Especially in an ATR.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIETeLoqoXc

[Latrobe]

 That's awesome! unless you were flying through it of course. My and my dad were coming home late one night and it was as cloud-less of a night as it could be. There was literally no clouds but for a thunderstorm of in the distance. We were just in the right spot at the right time. Saw the whole storm cloud with lightning going off everywhere, it was awe inspiring.

[SFRT - Frenchy]

That's a pretty violent one, happy he's not in it.

I personally hate thunderstorms at night, the only chance you have to go around them is when you have a thunderbolt flash while out of a cloud, and once you are in them you cannot even read your instruments, you cannot ear ATC because your headset crakles every other seconds ... and you wonder how late your cargo is going to be while vaguely recalling a couple of accident reports that started by where you are at.

In the other end, my friend that flies Falcons really enjoys looking down on them from 40,000+