Topic: Lenticular Cloud

[ocala]

Got this from the Astronomy Picture of the Day site. Pretty cool.

[W Thomas]

That's quite a picture!

It would make an excellent desktop background

[Scalphunter]

 Good place to stay away from in an ligth aircraft

[WeatherBeacon]

Awesome pic!

Good place to stay away from in an ligth aircraft

Good point. There are usually rotors (often invisible) downslope of such clouds. Very dangerous to aircraft.

Nice pic! Thanks for sharing!

Kevin...

[Scalphunter]

Yes I know  have generally make a few detours  flying here in SE AK going either north into interior or going south  to Lower 48.

John
KL7IFP

[offroadjosh]

ummm what happens if you flew through that?? it looks like it'd be cool:)


Josh

[Scalphunter]

It would  knock you out  of the air most likely due to the rotory motion of the air under it. A heavy metal plane  could  but  would get  bounced around good. When flying mountail  terrain and having to cross over ridges you set up your  fligth path to cross them at a 45 degree angle to the ridge line and up here also  you DON'T fly  up a glacicer due to the cold air sink can be greather then your climb rate. Lot of tricks you have to learn to bush flying.


John
KL7IFP

[offroadjosh]

so basically flying in to that =death?

Josh

[weathermiz]

THATS AWESOME!!!!

[Mark / Ohio]

It would  knock you out  of the air most likely due to the rotory motion of the air under it. ...

Sounds like general rule of thumb is the clouds that would be the neatest to see up close are also the ones you want to avoid.