
Explore the fundamentals of aviation meteorology, covering key terms, visibility and ceiling, wind and turbulence, weather hazards, and how atmospheric layers, height, and weather information sources affect flight.
Explore visibility and ceiling concepts in aviation meteorology, including runway visibility, runway visual range, prevailing visibility, and how vmc, vfr, mvfr, ifr, and lifr govern flight rules.
Learn how air masses form, move, and acquire regional characteristics. Discover the four fronts: warm, cold, stationary, and occluded, and how they influence clouds, rainfall, and weather.
Explore how wind, including headwinds, tailwinds, and crosswinds, shapes takeoff, climb, and flight paths, along with wind shear, jet streams, and the four turbulence levels.
Understand high and low pressure systems through isobars, isallobars, and iso heights, apply Buys Ballot's law and the coriolis effect to wind, and explore ridges, troughs, cols, and depressions.
Learn how clouds form by condensation into droplets or ice crystals and classify them as cirriform, cumuloform, and stratiform, including cloud cover terms and the basics of fronts and precipitation.
Explain atmospheric stability: stable, neutral, and unstable, and thunderstorm formation with cumulus, mature, and dissipating stages, and outline aviation hazards like turbulence, wind shear, icing, and low visibility.
Explore how METAR and TAF report current and forecast weather for aviation. Identify SIGMET, AIRMET, GAMET, PIREP roles and read Form 215 wind charts.
Explore how temperature and pressure with height affect flight, including altimeters and the four pressure settings—QFE, QNH, QFF, and QNE—and density altitude, transition altitude, and flight levels.
Have you ever wondered how the weather affects flights? Do you want to learn the science behind it? Do you want to be prepared to understand how the weather can affect your flight conditions such as thunderstorm formation and the different cloud types. This is a short but very informative crash course that will give you the basic informations that you need. No prior experience is required.
An introductory course, diving into the world of meteorology and how the principles of meteorology can impact aviation. Covering the basics such as;
-Basic information such as, temperature, wind, pressure etc.
-Visibility and Ceiling
-Air Masses and Fronts
-Wind and Turbulence
-High and Low Pressure Systems
-Cloud Types and Their Formation
-Weather Hazards to Aviation
-Sources of Weather Information
-Changes to Temperature and Pressure with Height and How They Affect Your Flight
Each lecture will cover an important subject for aviation meteorlogy, without lingering too long on any one subject. Lectures are generally 5 - 10 minutes in length. You will also be given the opportunity to test your knowledge throughout the course with interactive quizzes.
After this course, our knowledge and your passion for knowledge will combine and you can join us our future and more advanced lectures where we will dive into new topics as well as expands on existing ones.