readx; Thunderstorm weather is a weather phenomenon that pilots hate very much, like the small plane piloted by Xu Wei, a lightning bolt will cut down, the electronic system will all fail, it is very easy to cause a crash, this kind of bad weather, instructors can not and dare not land at the airport. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Regardless of what to do next, instructors should first stay at least 20 nautical miles away from thunderstorm clouds, which is a relatively safe distance to avoid the threat of thunderstorms.

The instructors circled the thunderstorm cloud for 20 nautical miles while appealing to the tower for help, but the result was that the thunderstorm cloud was expected to last until about 5 p.m., and their plane's fuel simply could not last until that time.

There is no choice but to land at another airport. The instructor chose the nearest airfield, called 19a, and was ready to descend there for the time being, and then wait for the Athens thunderstorm cloud to clear before returning to base.

19a, like 17a, is a small airport, and it is only ten minutes away from Xu Wei's location. Affected by the thunderstorm, the plane was more and more turbulent, and the instructor did not hand over the piloting rights to Xu Wei again.

Suddenly, the instructor pointed to a small cloud in front of him. The pair of clouds wasn't big, but it didn't look like pure white cotton wool, and it was a little gray in the center. The instructor meant that the cloud had a tendency to develop into a thunderstorm cloud. As he spoke, he asked Xu Wei to take over the plane, took out the tablet, clicked on the software of an aircraft icon, and the whole screen of the aeronautical chart was displayed, and Xu Wei found that this was the regional aeronautical chart near Athens. Xu Wei can even spot the airport sign of Athens in the lower right corner of the screen.

There was a small red dot moving slowly above the chart, and Xu Wei guessed that it should be the location of their plane. There is a yellow spot in front of the plane, which represents a rain cloud. From the location, it is a small cloud in the front right. Judging from the screen, the cloud is just an ordinary rain cloud, just bypass it, there is no danger.

Suddenly, Xu Wei keenly noticed that a small bit of red appeared in the yellow spot, which meant that there was a thunderstorm inside! Adequate attention needs to be paid to it.

The instructor apparently noticed this, but visually the cloud was very faint, although there was a dark cloud in the middle, but it was very small, and it didn't look like a thunderstorm cloud.

To be on the safe side, the instructor contacted the ATC and asked the ATC to confirm whether there were thunderclouds in front of him, and Xu Wei could tell that the ATC said that on the weather radar, there were no thunderclouds in front of them.

The instructor breathed a sigh of relief, but still deviated a little to the left, keeping some distance from the cloud, but it was not 20 nautical miles, and if they kept 20 nautical miles, they would need to go around in a big circle, which was too time-consuming, but in the instructor's opinion, this should be enough to stay safe.

Because under the instrument flight rules, you need to pay attention to the ATC directive at all times. Probably because of the thunderstorm, there were a lot of planes stranded around Athens, and there was quite a lot of activity on the radio, and the pilots occasionally teased each other with a word or two. It's just that due to the large number of aircraft, instructors need to concentrate on dodging other aircraft.

At first, Xu Wei would also help the instructor find the plane, until after he confused the plane with birds many times, in order not to continue to lose face, he simply borrowed a tablet from the instructor and studied the software called "forflight".

Xu Wei hadn't taken the tablet for a while, and the small red dots in the original yellow spots were expanding visibly with the naked eye. Xu Wei secretly said that it was not good, and he was about to call the instructor, but he saw a flash in front of the cockpit, which actually overshadowed the sun.

The instructor's face changed wildly, he hurriedly stepped on the accelerator, turned left, and at the same time notified the ATC, and said a lot of words quickly, Xu Wei didn't understand, but one word was mentioned repeatedly, that is, "lightning", that is, lightning. Linked to the red area that he saw just now expanding, Xu Wei could be sure that what flashed just now was the light of lightning, lightning. A bolt of lightning had just struck not far in front of them!

Thinking of this, Xu Weiden shuddered, looked down, and found that more than half of the yellow area had turned red. Xu Wei's scalp was numb, and he found that there were thunderstorms in front of and behind them, and they were surrounded!