Thunderstorms

Thunderstorms for fearful flyers.

The first thing you should know is that the rules and regulation…and common sense …means that we don’t get any closer than 20 miles to the center of a storm. You may feel that you’ve been closer  but you haven’t. You may have been struck by lightning when you ‘ve been flying but that still doesn’t mean you’ve been in a storm.

The reason a plane isn’t troubled by a lighttmning strike is that the plane is ‘insulated’ from the electricity because the fuselage acts as a Faraday’s Cage.

More to follow….