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Weather radar not showing turbolence?


Alessio75

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Hi, it happened several times that I flew in a region with heavy turbolence (airplane strongly shaking) but the weather radar didn't show me.

It was on, all in auto, and knob on wx+t. Dimming knob on maximum as well. Tilting manually down i was able to see the echo, so it seems working. Any thoughts about? Thanks

 

I have v1.31, and use FSX sp2

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In the end, the WXR is just a radar. So there must be some sort of particles in the turbulence that could return the radio waves. That could be precipitation, but also e.g. dust (from a certain particles size on). Without anything like that the radar can't pick turbulence up.

 

More on that can be found here:

 

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