[mshac]

Never attended Archie Tramell's radar school, but it probably would've been valuable training.

It was pretty much OJT for me learning to use weather radar in the airlines. The initial type rating class would be 2-3 weeks, and maybe an hour of that time was spent on using the radar. With radar, you usually learned the tricks of the trade from more experienced pilots.

As an aside, I always wondered why the sim instructors would throw every mechanical problem in the book at you, but never any weather avoidance scenarios. Sure, there were low approaches out the wazoo, but no "Should we deviate based on what the radar is showing" type scenarios. Radar interpretation has always been a bit of "black art" amongst pilots, which is why Mr. Tramell's radar school was needed.