Being on an IFR plan means the nice controller person gets to vector you
right into some hairy chested, old grandpa, thunder bumper, while you can
see is the inside of a cloud...

Sunday a week ago (Aug 3) I was trying to fly north from RDU to
Winchester VA. Trying his best to be helpful, the controller kept
trying to vector me into a big black wall of CN, telling me he had
only level 1 or 2 echoes.

But my stormscope was lighting up, and having flown through a couple
of thunderstorms back in the early 50s, when I was in the marines and
there was no wx radar, I had no intention of going into that stuff. I
landed at an alternate.

vince norris-- an old, not bold, pilot