Description »
Many aviation accidents and incidents are caused by warm weather meteorological phenomena. With FlightSafety's Warm Weather Operations course, you'll gain a better understanding of meteorology and will be better equipped to make safety decisions during hail, lightning, high and low altitude turbulence, low level windshear, strong surface crosswinds, and heavy rain. By improving your ability to interpret warm weather hazards, you will be able to assess the risks involved in trying to beat hazardous weather to the runway or rushing a departure before hazardous weather arrives.
Course Objectives »
With the Warm Weather Operations course, you will learn to describe the characteristics of warm weather that can cause aircraft accidents and incidents, identify the ways to avoid hazardous warm weather phenomena, and be able to explain various products such as charts and satellite images that aid in anticipating hazardous warm weather occurrences. The course covers the following topics:
- Introduction and Course Overview
- Convective Weather
- Meteorological Conditions for Formation of Convective Weather
- Thunderstorms
- Meteorological Conditions for Formation of Tropical Weather Systems
- Flight Hazards Related to Convective Weather Systems & Tropical Weather Systems
- Sandstorms, Duststorms, and Dust Devils
- Worldwide Forecast and Current Weather Products for Convective Weather
- Course Summary
- Post-Course Assessment (Exam)
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Features and Benefits »
- Learn how to operate safely in warm weather conditions
- Interactive, engaging, and self-paced
- Developed by an aviation meteorologist in collaboration with experienced pilots and flight instructors
- Meets the regulatory requirements for training pilots in recognizing and avoiding thunderstorms and their associated high and low altitude hazards
- Available anytime and anywhere via the internet
- Resource documents and end-of-lesson summaries available for download
- Many user friendly enhancements including a search engine, glossary, bookmarks, notepad and more
- Obtain a FlightSafety Certificate of Completion
Additional Information »
- Price: $250 USD/person
- Target Audience: Pilots
- Duration: 2.0 hours
- Delivery: 100% web-delivered and self-paced
- Credit: Once you have completed the course and successfully passed the test, you are awarded a FlightSafety International certificate of completion. If you are an existing FlightSafety customer, you can also pick up your record of training in myFlightSafety.
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