Wednesday, June 5, 2019

What Is Airborne Weather Radar?


It is very interesting to know that nowadays majority of aircraft's fly a high altitude. But there are lots of clouding too, in such high altitudes. So, how the aircraft manages to avoid or penetrate such clouds. Here it is how.

Nowadays almost all the commercial aircraft are fitted with Airborne Weather Radar system.

It is basically a Primary Radar whose antenna is fitted on the nose of aircraft and scans the forward area ahead of aircraft track.

Weather Radar transmits pulses which are reflected by the water droplets which are present on the clouds. The denser the cloud, more will be the content of water droplets and hence more of the transmitted pulses will be reflected back to the aircraft and the intensity of reflected pulses will be displayed accordingly.


You will study further in details during CPL & ATPL training modules.

For more info :- https://www.graciousavatar.in/Pilot-Training/ATPL.php


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