With lots of affordable rural land, an abundance of Class E airspace, and plenty of VMC weather, it goes without saying that a thriving aviation community exists in the southern United States. Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana are home to almost 87,000 pilots and countless airshows and fly-ins, and the region is of course headquarters for Southwest and American Airlines. I find myself surprised that we haven’t yet written a special weather article for this region.
If you call this area home, you’ll find this article to be an interesting perspective and a good refresher by a Texas aviation forecaster. Those of you in other parts of the country will find it to be a valuable guide to dodging unexpected hazards should your cross-country travels bring you out this way. And for pilots in the Southeast states, keep it right here on this channel as many of the concepts described here apply to you as well.
