These first five screenshots were captured during segments of a flight from Ft Myers, Florida, to Hilton Head, South Carolina, as I get my leased Kodiak 100, two-sixty-two Pappa, in position to begin a Caribbean trek.  The weather started just south of Lakeland and continued until past Gainesville.  Some incredible clouds, caught between layers at 9,000 ft.

Looks like a vortex in the center of this shot, off behind the tail.

Some stunning cloud formations and color.

Looking more ominous despite tbe break off the right wing. I chose 9,000 ft to stay under reported icing conditions and above light to moderate chop reported at lower altitudes.  Man! Talk about picking your way through....  Probably good that I was flying alone....

Finally breaking out into cleaner air between Gainesville and Jacksonville, Florida

A look at the mouth of the Fort George River in the Nassau River-St. Johns River Marshes Aquatic Preserve north of Jacksonville, Florida, and just below the Florida-Georgia border.

A view in the background of the snaking branches of the Mackay River between Brunswick and St Simon's Island along the coast of Georgia.

Tomorrow I will be boarding an Allegiant flight from Hilton Head to Baltimore to get home, then packing and making other preparations.  Then I will fly my wife and another couple to Hilton Head in my Turbo Bonanza.  We will golf for a couple of days near Hilton Head.  Then we will hop in the Kodiak and head back to Ft Myers to pick up two other "simulated" couples. That will be a quick stop, then on to Key West for a couple of days of golfing there before heading down to the Cayman Islands to begin the trek. 

Edited February 10, 20224 yr by fppilot

Beautiful pics!

Amazing clouds Frank , MSFS Live WX or REX ? .

Nice! very good shots! 🙂 WHere did you get the reports of icing etc?:)

Edited February 10, 20224 yr by Victoroos

10 hours ago, Victoroos said:

Nice! very good shots! 🙂 WHere did you get the reports of icing etc?:)

Using Skyvector. On the the Lo or Hi World or Enroute charts just zoom out from your route and icons begin to appear for pireps.  Click on one and a small window pops up with details. I have drawn a blue line from the popup to the icon that was clicked.  Those that appear like a green football goal post are usually icing reports.  The icons with inverted "V's" are typically turbulence reports.  You can see a couple of them as windbarbs in red there in the center and they are typically reports of wind sheer.

I had to look further north today to find icing reports.  The weather over Florida today is mostly clear.