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Good afternoon Stephane...

Your first two shots are really great.

Love how the sky and clouds all blend together, they produce a mood hard to describe as each individual will look at those picture a little different.

An ab initio aviator might find the sky and clouds threatening and be envious of the fighter jock where a flyer like myself loves that type of sky.

As always your work is wonderful to view.

[quote]Good afternoon Stephane...

Your first two shots are really great.

Love how the sky and clouds all blend together, they produce a mood hard to describe as each individual will look at those picture a little different.

An ab initio aviator might find the sky and clouds threatening and be envious of the fighter jock where a flyer like myself loves that type of sky.

As always your work is wonderful to view.

Good morning all...

Paul you are absolutely right, a general aviation aviator with limited hours and no instrument rating, night rating and a few more endorsements is better off:

Sitting down here
Wishing he was up there

Rather than up there
Wishing he was down here

When I flew Bush Aircraft during the summer I had to help look for several aircraft that had gone down in Northern Canada...they were never found.

When I flew in the military I was with Air Transport Command and we assisted our Search and Rescue Squadrons during a search for aircraft, summer and winter.

When I flew commercial many times we deviated because my number one picked up a ELT signal in the north.

Most of it stupidity, lack of experience and training was what we saw when looking for a downed aircraft.

It does not happen as much now but the odd time I hear of an aviator getting themselves into troubles.

What bothered me the most was if we saw the wreck and could land, we hiked there and picking the children up if there were any made me think of my children at home.
Most times there were no survivors and it made many of us wonder what the parents must have been thinking to push the weather.
Many times the aircraft were never found and when the snowmobiles came into use by the general public these folks would often find missing wrecks that were rolled into aluminum balls against the side of a tree.

I have over half of a century and three Log Books full of escapades but now when I see nasty black puffy wuffies unless I have a good aircraft and an instructor with me I am just like you Paul.   ;)

Sorry Stephane for getting so long winded on your post....

Cheers...Happy Landings...Doug

As a keen Motorcyclist for the past 60 years, I have always been an avid Cloud/Weather watcher, the same as experienced Aircraft Pilots.... ..!

As a Motorcyclist, I can get wet/cold if the weather is inclement... ....

As an Aircraft Pilot you can/will die... ....!

Paul...shopping, in between showers... 8-)...!

Ta, Daube....I love looking at, and identifying

Interesting discussions in fact  :o
I know that non-military pilot would normally stay under the hangar with such clouds around the airfield... and that's precisely one of the major FS frustrations for me => I would love to see the exact kind of problems that could occurs upon flying in such clouds... in the sim of course, not in real life 

Thanks for the kind comments by the way

[quote]Interesting discussions in fact

Thanks for the link, Fozzer

One day, I had a discussion with the pilot in our parachute club. He explained me basically how dangerous those Cumulonimbus clouds are, telling that they would simply make the aircraft (a Pilatus PC-6 TurboPorter) clap his hands with her wings  :-?

Where we jump, in south of france (Le Cannet / Le Luc airfield), the weather gets really hot in summer, and those cumulus/cumulonimbus sometimes appear not far away from the base... it's really cool to jump next (I mean 5-10 kms away) to them, since they often offer a great background, an impressive aerial landscape to look at while we fall.

However, since we need 20 minutes to reach the lauching altitude (12.000 feet, 4000 meters), I can tell you that the turbulence are pretty hard sometimes for the stomatches, and that you get REALLY HAPPY to get out of the plane finally 

...and not to forget the dreaded "Carburettor icing" syndrome, affecting normally aspirated piston engines in moisture-laden air under freezing conditions, often experienced in those nice-looking clouds!.... :o....>>>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carburetor_heat

Unfortunately, the Flight Sims do not replicate these dangerous conditions as warning to aspiring Pilots!

Carburettor Icing is a killer!... ...!

Paul...G-BPLF...FS 2004...FS Nav...and a Carb Heat Knob!... ... ...!