AOPA Pilot Magazine - December 2017 - 92
P&E
WX WATCH
three days, waiting out tropical storm Mawar.
Its huge cloud mass hadn't budged, but a
plan was hatched to take off from Taipei's
Songshan Airport, fly through what looked
like a soft spot, and make a wide circumnavigation to the east around the storm. Weather
for takeoff was wind 90 degrees at 13 knots,
five miles in rainshowers, with cloud layers
of 1,500 scattered, 2,500 scattered, and 9,000
overcast. Not too bad, but shortly after takeoff
our Cessna Citation Mustang ran into torrential rain while climbing through 15,000 feet. It
was so bad I wondered if the engines would
flame out-but the single bout with turbulence
wasn't that bad. The engines didn't flame out,
and we broke out between layers starting at
about 28,000 feet. By 36,000 feet we were on
top and all worked out well for the rest of the
trip. I won't do that again, and suggest you
follow suit-no matter what kind of airplane
you're flying. The next day Mawar's surface
winds peaked at 50 mph.
WARMING RUNWAYS
Once back home, I read a New York Times
article by Mike Ives titled "Climate Change
Lands at the Airport." The thrust of the piece
was that global warming could threaten
many airports. Rising sea levels would inundate low-lying airports built near seacoasts
or river beds. Thawing permafrost would
damage runways in northern latitudes.
Rising temperatures would require longer
runways to cope with the effects of high
density altitude, and payloads would have
to be reduced to preserve safe climb rates.
Whether you believe global warming is
achieved by man-made influences, or is a part
of natural cyclical patterns, this year's especially violent Atlantic hurricanes make you
wonder: What will next year bring? AOPA
EMAIL tom.horne@aopa.org
WX24PILOT
THE MUSTANG'S PLANNED ROUTE to circumvent tropical storm Mawar. The area of high-
est cloud tops in this ForeFlight screen capture is over the southern half of Taiwan, but
this was three hours before departure. By takeoff time this cloud mass had expanded to
cover the entire island.
92 | AOPA PILOT December 2017
Delta has its fancy flight
weather viewer app, and
now there's yet another new
weather app aimed at general
aviation pilots. It's Wx24Pilot
($39.99 from the App Store).
The iOS app is heavy on the
visuals, showing color-coded
weather symbology along the
route of flight; circular airport
weather symbology that shows
both color-coded and textual
weather for selected airports;
and plots that let you customize the displays to show your
personal minimums. It's worth
checking out, but better read
the tutorial first to understand
all its functions.
-TAH
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