{"id":1564,"date":"2015-05-27T12:51:43","date_gmt":"2015-05-27T17:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.airdorrin.com\/?p=1564"},"modified":"2015-05-27T13:06:26","modified_gmt":"2015-05-27T18:06:26","slug":"may-27-2015-weather-radar-and-steep-visual-approaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.airdorrin.com\/?p=1564","title":{"rendered":"May 27, 2015 &#8211; Weather Radar and steep visual approaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This was my leg, and we just landed in Williamsport, PA after using radar to weave our way through a developing line of storms.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.airdorrin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/image.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1565 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.airdorrin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/image-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.airdorrin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/image-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.airdorrin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/image-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.airdorrin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/image.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0My landings on this one and my other leg were two of the best squeakers I have had in awhile. I just\u00a0watched what the Captain was doing and\u00a0tweaked my technique.<\/p>\n<p>To get through the line, we used the radar along with our own eyes to avoid the worst\u00a0cells. This experience adds to skills I&#8217;ve attained on my own, and will be invaluable later on when I&#8217;m calling the shots in the Dash.<\/p>\n<p>After penetrating this line &#8211; we found ourselves at 9000&#8242; with the airport in sight on the north side of a ridge line. We were cleared for the visual and the amazing Dash-8 was at it again. \u00a0Working with solid CRM with the Captain, we performed a steep approach for a visual 24 &#8211; backed up by the ILS 24. It was so much fun working hand-in-hand to get this landing done that I had to write about it as soon as I got in.<\/p>\n<p>I wish you could see what I see &#8211; it&#8217;s amazing up there. \u00a0This flight ranked about an 8 on my <i><u>go out and have fun<\/u><\/i> scale.<\/p>\n<p>Fly Safe and have fun!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was my leg, and we just landed in Williamsport, PA after using radar to weave our way through a developing line of storms.\u00a0My landings on this one and my other leg were two of the best squeakers I have had in awhile. I just\u00a0watched what the Captain was doing and\u00a0tweaked my technique. To get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-home-page","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.airdorrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.airdorrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.airdorrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.airdorrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.airdorrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1564"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.airdorrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1570,"href":"https:\/\/www.airdorrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1564\/revisions\/1570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.airdorrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.airdorrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.airdorrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}