When I got back, my flying bud was fussing at me for flying so close to a fast moving front with TC's going to 55,000, lighting, and severe turbulance. I told him that when I deviated, the line was 80 miles away, at midpoint, it was 60 miles away, and when I hooked it around, about 40 miles away. I wasn't even close to it and was in clear smooth air. I will have to say a lightening storm from 60 miles away looks pretty spectacular at 14,000 feet.
His point was alwasy fly to the west side where the weather is diminishing instead of the building side. I told him that that would have put me right through the middle of it since it was still over Memphis and my deviation to the west side of it wouldn't have worked.
When I made the turn back on the east side of Birmingham, the front line was getting read to enter their airspace from the west.
After I got back and saw the picture, I then understood what he was talking about. Apparantly, the last shot on Flightaware used the last position of the storm superimposed on my flight path when I canceled IFR with approach. Based on that, I now know why he was fussing. I was in VFR conditions the entire time, however this still shot is so deceiving.
If I had flown direct with no deviation for LEX to M16, I would have flown directly through the red lines.
His point was alwasy fly to the west side where the weather is diminishing instead of the building side. I told him that that would have put me right through the middle of it since it was still over Memphis and my deviation to the west side of it wouldn't have worked.
When I made the turn back on the east side of Birmingham, the front line was getting read to enter their airspace from the west.
After I got back and saw the picture, I then understood what he was talking about. Apparantly, the last shot on Flightaware used the last position of the storm superimposed on my flight path when I canceled IFR with approach. Based on that, I now know why he was fussing. I was in VFR conditions the entire time, however this still shot is so deceiving.
If I had flown direct with no deviation for LEX to M16, I would have flown directly through the red lines.
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