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"The trip on Friday went perfectly, the weather behaved as we had discussed in our online briefing. Since I ended up leaving later than planned it was VMC all the time. On Sunday on the way back I was IMC all the time. I have to say that, thanks to all of your great teaching, I was confident, dare I almost say knew, that there were no issues with the weather. It was clear that the the atmosphere was stable along my route of flight and that the freezing level was way above my intended altitude."
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Skew-T log (p) tip number 3 - How moisture affects surface-based CAPE Added on: June 28, 2009 Duration: 8 minutes No convective index is perfect. Every one of them is essentially of limited use in some way to predict the occurrence, intensity or likelihood of deep, moist convection. Even when these indices are at their extremes, they can often yield in false alarms. Pilots must recognize that all convective indices... |
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Using the satellite image on XM-based weather Added on: June 22, 2009 Duration: 7 minutes There are some products on your satellite-based weather that are essentially, “what you see is what you get” or what is commonly referred to as WYSIWYG. A few examples include METARs, PIREPs and TAFs. XM-based satellite weather also includes a low resolution infrared satellite image that can be very useful at times. But it isn’t... |
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AvWx Safety Challenge Quiz - NEXRAD Added on: June 15, 2009 Duration: NA The NWS WSR-88D NEXRAD Doppler radar image is by far one of the pilot's most useful tools on the ground and in the cockpit. It provides a great deal of glance value and normally requires very little interpretation to use safely. However, the more you know about this product, the more useful it will be. Even so, the devil is in the details... |
Satellite weather gone bad Added on: June 8, 2009 Duration: 7 minutes For many decades general aviation pilots flying single engine aircraft and many light twins have desired an affordable realtime weather display in the cockpit. Onboard weather radar was a distant dream and was just not practical. A spherics device, such as a Stormscope, was the only practical and affordable realtime weather available until... |
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Anomalous propagation Added on: June 1, 2009 Duration: 6 minutes NEXRAD from the NWS WSR-88D Doppler radars is probably one of the first products a pilot studies before departing on any cross country flight. For the most part, it provides a very high glance value with very little knowledge or training required to use the product safely. It’s also the data used to build the satellite weather display employed by thousands of pilots in the cockpit. However, the NEXRAD image isn’t always clean and... |
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"The trip on Friday went perfectly, the weather behaved as we had discussed in our online session. Since I ended up leaving later than planned it was VMC all the time. On Sunday on the way back I was IMC all the time. I have to say that, thanks to all of your great teaching, I was confident, dare I almost say knew, that there were no issues with the weather. It was clear that the the atmosphere was stable along my route of flight and that the freezing level was way above my intended altitude."
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