Why Is Area Forecast Discussion Important for Preflight Planning?
The AFD is a vehicle for the forecaster to document technical reasoning behind the forecast they just issued.
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The AFD is a vehicle for the forecaster to document technical reasoning behind the forecast they just issued.
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The goal of the coded form was to allow forecasters and observers to key in data quickly.
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When there’s a discrepancy, an aviation weather forecaster can make an update.
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EDR is an aircraft-independent quantifier for how turbulent the atmosphere is, and it’s not a measure of the likelihood of turbulence—just the intensity.
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The sunset of the textual version comes in the wake of mass acceptance of graphical AIRMETs.
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An aviation meteorologist explains how a graphical AIRMET is different from a traditional one.
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An aviation meteorologist reveals the progression from sleet to ice pellets to snow as we look forward to the change in seasons.
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An aviation meteorologist explains why troughs are important enough to depict on prog charts.
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Think strategically about general patterns as you plan flying for summer into fall.
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How one instructor and his client attack one of Mother Nature's biggest threats to flying.
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