This is the Weather Essentials for Pilots, Advanced Weather Essentials for Pilots, Skew-T Weather Essentials & In Flight Weather Essentials four-class combo summary guide. This summary guide is a PDF that includes the following -
Table of contents
Hyperlinks to the 40 unlisted video recordings of each class (over 34 hours of expert training!)
Hyperlinks to a PDF containing the slides for each class
Hyperlinks to each quiz and quiz answers for each class (Advanced Wx Essentials does not contain quizzes)
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Four-class combo
Syllabus topics included in the Weather Essentials for Pilots class -
- Observational guidance
- Surface observations
- Pilot weather reports
- Ground-based radar
- Advisories
- Graphical AIRMETs (G-AIRMETs)
- SIGMETs
- Center Weather Advisories (CWAs)
- Forecast guidance
- Terminal Aerodrome Forecasts (TAFs)
- Area Forecast Discussions (AFDs)
- Surface analyses and prog charts
- Quantitative Precipitation Forecasts (QPF)
- Probability of precipitation (PoP)
- Convective outlooks from the Storm Prediction Center (SPC)
- Model-based guidance
- Forecast radar
- Forecast echo top heights
- Probabilistic thunderstorm forecasts
- Model Output Statistics (MOS)
- Current and Forecast Icing Products (CIP/FIP)
- Graphical Turbulence Guidance (GTG) Product
...and more.
Syllabus topics included in the Advanced Weather Essentials for Pilots class -
- Review of weather forecasts and observations
- Elements of the big picture weather
- Constant pressure charts (Part 1)
- Constant pressure charts (Part 2)
- Icing guidance and considerations
- Thunderstorm guidance and considerations
- Turbulence guidance and considerations
- Extended-range flight planning scenario
- Short-range flight planning scenario
- NOWcast flight planning scenario
...and more.
Syllabus topics included in the Skew-T Weather Essentials class -
- Introduction to the Skew-T diagram & radiosonde observations
- Fundamental properties of the atmosphere
- The base Skew-T diagram
- Lapse rates & buoyancy
- Mixing ratio, wind & inversions
- Parcel theory
- Stability indices (Part 1)
- Stability indices (Part 2)
- Cloud bases & tops
- Airframe icing (Part 1)
- Airframe icing (Part 2)
- Turbulence
...and more.
Syllabus topics included in the In Flight Weather Essentials for Pilots class -
- Protecting the margins
- Convection (Part 1)
- Convection (Part 2)
- Datalink weather
- ATC & weather
- Airframe icing (Part 1)
- Airframe icing (Part 2)
- Nonconvective Turbulence
- Observational guidance