The woes of driving in the PNW rain this time of year...no radar cruise control

The majority of aircraft don't have any kind of radar "seeing" through the clouds. There's a lot of them flying in the clouds with pilots simply staring at 3" round analog gauges with little needles on them.

 

funny thing is, I’m an airline pilot so I know about this. And to everyone saying we have more nav technology in a jet (which we do), sometimes it is better to its fly the plane and look outside. But driving is much more dangerous and relying on the radar cruise control is kind of nice after a long day of flying. Just my 2¢

 

Aircraft do have radar and we use instruments to see through the clouds and navigate. We also have radar altimeter which sees through fog to see how high we are off the ground (up to 2500’ above ground) in the arrival and departure environment. Also aircraft with round dials and needles are basically a thing of the past.

 

No doubt. That's how I was feeling. I'm 47 on Friday

 

I know all of that, I fly them daily. Instruments do not "see through" clouds, the majority of GA and smaller part 135 operators are flying analog instruments still.

 

No instruments don’t see through clouds, but allow us to fly through them. The instruments don’t even see anything, they are aircraft and ground based. But pilots use them to “see” through the clouds.

 

are we flying planes or driving trucks, i'm confused now

 

Driving trucks more advanced than planes from 30 years ago using computers more processing power than it took to put men on the moon.