Austin to Boston Sunday averaging 320 kts Ground Speed. Great flight home.
Thank you all,  for your interest in Safely flying your aircraft with your onboard radar. It was an honor to speak. 
   The best part of using the Onboard Radar for navigating around the weather is the preflight planning. Using the lifted index from 1800wxbrief/wx graphics to find the air stability in the atmosphere around you at 18,000 ft. A plus 2 is the best for Training.
This works best when the temps are ISA +10 to 20 c.
   Checking the Graphical Turbulence Guidance for your cruise altitude and looking at all the pireps along your route. Figuring out a plan, and always having an out.
   Set your tiltat plus 10 deg and 20 nm range before departure and correlate the nexrad range to 20 nm also. make sure you have the Nav ring selected on to help make the measurements to the wx easy.
   Make sure you have a Calibrated Radar in pitch and roll which you can do by setting zero tilt and painting your altitude with the bottom of the beam. I train to teach seeing
the beam set at the return for 15,000 ft where the best reflective value is close to the freezing level. 
   Stay ahead with the tilt by setting the beam at 15,000 before the weather. If I have identified a cell at 30nm, I quickly set the beam for 20nm to be ready to do the 5 step flow as the weather moves in. Fly upwind if possible. 
when descending for approach phase through 8,000 ft set tilt plus 10 deg and 20 nm range and leave it thru landing, and just move the range in. 
   Take your time, SLOW DOWN, practice the flow VFR by setting the correct tilt for you altitude, then tilt down to make more gound returns to simulate your wx for the 5 step flow. 
Try to get thru the flow without hitting the wrong buttons or not following the checklist.
  The 50% gain cut or 15 dbz reduction removes the level 1 and 2 wx, or light to moderate rain from the screen. If I am just flying in an area of moderate rain or less, the Bearing Indicator straight ahead, the beam set for 20 nm at 15,000ft, and just the 50% or 15 dbz gain reduction will usually clear the screen and your good for 20 nm.
  Getting professional instruction is the best way to enjoy the fabulous tool and reduce the anxiety that comes with the wx and expand your limitations and personal limitations.
Keep the blue side up and the ball centered!
Best Day
God Bless and thank you again, grateful for your participation.
Capt'n Bill
P.S. Check the Training / Weather Flying Page for the Weather Checklist
​and Lifted Index Procedure.

Good morning from Beautiful Boston.
Looking ahead for the Northeast flyers, possible frontal boundary from Boston to DFW.
Was just checking the Prog on Aviationweather.gov. 
Be sure to put your route in and check the Turbulence site for C.A.T.
Pireps along the route for possible ice conditions, and test all equipment.
Good chance for some excellent Radar practice putting the beam at 15,000 ft on the cells.
Practice the 5 steps starting with the bearing line over the cell, ident the position, then do a vertical cut. Even if its ground return by being symmetrical , go back to horizontal and do the 50% gain cut for practice, always return to calibrated gain and envision the decision to turn upwind if able.
The GWX 70 and up guys and gals can practice the correct tilt and adding 4 deg to get rid of most of the ground return outside of 40 nm.
Due to Beam Width smear, Radars with Magnetrons are only good out to 30 miles.
This is all due to the 10 inch antenna.
Keep the blue side up and the ball centered!
Capt'n Bill

Hello,
​Use Google Chrome if Safari will not open the Radar training Video.

I have added the Radar Training card on the Radar Training Page.
​If you have time I have added some Quick Reference for the Training Class from The video Radar Training with Bill Panarello on the Videos page.
 If you drag up to the listed Times, Pertinent info for the class are emphasized from the video.
Enjoy
Capt'n Bill

Weather and Ground straight ahead Gain Cut, less than Level 2 if monitor goes black.
7:30 to 9:05

Weather I.D. steps and ground I.D. only.   12:15 to 14:40

Weather steps to stay ahead and ATC reporting neared WX.  16:10 to 20:05

ATC Reports and Setup in the hold for Trolling for WX.  25:30 to 26:50

Active Shadow steps to Ident, Hooking a good one!  27:30 to 32:32

Slowing down to Enjoy the ride! Masking a Turn in Heading mode. 33:45 to 35:50

Good Vertical cut, Caught a Keepah, and Decision made for turn. 37:15 to 39:05

Storm Identification, Decision making, turn before the WX. 41:30 to the END.

Great time , Great Student, 
 

Hello Fellow Aviators,
Putting together a Four part Radar Seminar for online study before the November 2, 2024 PMOPA Convention at the beautiful JW Marriott in Austin,TX.
The Videos are on the Training/Radar Training page.
I will have a class Saturday Afternoon going over how to make
​the Radar your best friend.
Excited to see you all there.
Keep the blue side up and the ball centered!
​Captain Bill

​Hello everyone,
Back on board, ,continuing  to try and help out with Training in the world of
operating your Turbo propeller aircraft. The TBM models has matured up to the
960 with auto throttle, FMS, and Fadec. Been an amazing aircraft to aviate in.
The TBM to me is a professional pilots airplane being flown by a lot of
private pilots. I train the group as I was trained with The Airline Mindset for GA.
I really seems to be helpful bringing this concept to get the pilots to be
ahead of the aircraft during all the phases of flight from the personal mins,
weather, the systems, SOP'S, using Command Authority, being a
Creature of Good Habits, and Speaking Up. 
My Focus has been on Initial Training, Recurrent Training, Commercial pilot
Prep for the Practical, with special training on RADAR, ICING, AOA, and CLEAR 
AIR TURBULENCE identification.
Its a lot of fun to get Proficient and Sharpening the Skills needed to FLY LIKE A PRO!
Keep the Blue side up and the Ball Centered!
Email with a phone number if you would like to know more about TBM PRO TRAINING
and Thank You for your interest.
Have the best day,
Capt'n Bill 

Well Happy New Year to all from the lovely Kabul Afghanistan. TBM Pro Training's website while still under construction is launching. As Bill's son and profession pilot (and millennial, so in charge of the IT here) my goal is to get across what we are trying to do here at TBM Pro Training. If you have trained with us or been to our seminars you know what Bill brings to flight training. TBM Pro Training is growing and listening to student's needs, we keep finding more that we can be doing. Building publications for operators and providing high quality training materials is a goal of ours. In the future with student logins we will be able to provide the materials we build together for future reference or if the dog ate it. All of our training has come from requests of pilot groups and operators as to what is important to them so keep asking and we will keep working on it.