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Radar Facts
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AIRCRAFT HEADING
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Positional Relationship of an Airplane and
Storm Cells Ahead as Displayed on Indicator
Figure 5-1
The drawing is laid out to simulate the face of the indicator with the
semicircularrangemarks.Toderiveaclearerconceptofthepicturethat
the indicator presents, imagine that the storm is a loaf of sliced bread
standing on end. From a point close to the surface of earth, it towers
toahigh-altitudesummit.Withoutupsetting theloaf ofbread, theradar
removes a single slice from the middle of the loaf, andplaces this slice
flat upon the table. Looking at the slice of bread from directly above, a
cross section of the loaf can be seen in its broadest dimension. In the
same manner, the radar beam literally slices out a horizontal cross
section of the storm and displays it as though the viewer was looking
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