When the Weather Changes Fast: A Lesson in MVFR Respect
Recognizing changing conditions and knowing local landmarks can help student pilots avoid dangerous traps.
Recognizing changing conditions and knowing local landmarks can help student pilots avoid dangerous traps.
Winter weather creates many challenges for airports but also offers unique job opportunities.
Weather Company’s Weather Dispatch platform reduces a nagging chore.
Visual confirmation in flight planning plays a critical role when automated systems are ‘creatively optimistic.’
Water is receding in some locations, but not all.
Pilots and volunteers scramble to protect property.
Single poor decision can cascade into a dangerous situation with great speed in aviation.
Flying high gives pilots the best opportunity for unlimited visibility and safe conditions.
Many approach control facilities have airport surveillance radar physically
located on the field.
With the recent government staffing cuts, there has been a need to indefinitely suspend them at three upper-air stations.