I own and fly often a light aircraft. I don't have the instruments to fly by them in the clouds so I need to fly either under, or above the clouds. When I do the latter, it is called "on top." The only thing I need then is to make sure that there are "holes" in the clouds at my destination so that I can get back under the clouds.
But once above the clouds, indeed, it is blue sky. Well, it depends of the altitude. Low clouds are easily flown above at about 6,000 ft above the ground. But there are still those cirrus, thin clouds made out of ice crystals, on the top.
If you really want to fly in only "blue sky above" you need to come to the top of what is called the troposphere. That is roughly 12 km over the poles and 18 km over the equator. At that altitude, the temperature starts increasing again, which forms an inversion and clouds are not getting higher. Above that is what we call, the stratosphere. Airliners flying high in e.g. a cross-Atlantic flight, will get all the way to the stratosphere and from there, the sky is dark blue since there is much less air than at sea level.
But once above the clouds, indeed, it is blue sky. Well, it depends of the altitude. Low clouds are easily flown above at about 6,000 ft above the ground. But there are still those cirrus, thin clouds made out of ice crystals, on the top.
If you really want to fly in only "blue sky above" you need to come to the top of what is called the troposphere. That is roughly 12 km over the poles and 18 km over the equator. At that altitude, the temperature starts increasing again, which forms an inversion and clouds are not getting higher. Above that is what we call, the stratosphere. Airliners flying high in e.g. a cross-Atlantic flight, will get all the way to the stratosphere and from there, the sky is dark blue since there is much less air than at sea level.
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Depending on your altitude, yes, during the day you can see a blue sky when you are flying above storm clouds. The difference altitude makes is because the higher your are in altitude, the less air above you for the sun's light to be scattered and the darker the sky will appear. Mind you at night, the sky appears dark anyway, because the sun's light is not reaching the air around you to be scattered and make the sky appear blue.
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Yes, in fact, here's a video I took of it for proof: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eb65KR4Yw…
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Yes, and it is usually a darker blue than is seen from the ground.
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yes . if the sun is shining. if it is night u would not see blue clouds
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yes, unless it is night time