CNN Fareed Zakaria GPS December 28, 2014 15:18:00
Tropics. >> but the request was made to climb to a higher altitude what might that suggest? >> that could be because they wish to remain visual. you know it was daytime, and thunderstorms are often embedded in other clouds which makes it difficult to see them which means you're relying purely on your radar. pilots prefer to see the storms if you're in the daylight. and that mean you have to be above the general cloud layer, so you try and go up. but flying over the top of a thunderstorm is not a possibility in the tropics, because the storms are not as high as you, but they probably will be, b...
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