Practical meteorology: weather and flying

A Note of Congratulations!!!

Flight cadets - to be precise now you're all my fellow airmen, congratulations to everyone on your first solo the other week.

I'm certain it was a really memorable first flight alone up in thinner air for everyone. I know you're all proud of yourself. It's a great feeling, isn't it?

Okay, life must go on, the show must go on, you all need to keep on flying and doing well too to become good pilots and not just a pilot. Good pilot should have good knowledge, airmanship, competency, and wisdom!!! You're all at the right place. Here is one of the best flying schools.

Today we're all going to devote our time, just some small extra time for roughly not more than an hour to talk and review ourselves some of the matters concerned Meteorology. It is as important as other subjects about flying. Of course as we all know weather plays major role in our daily life and most importantly in safety and smoothness of all our flights. Besides technical reasons, pilot error, major cause of air accidents is weather, bad weather!!!

Okay now let's get right to our business. You all have learnt about the subject of Meteorology during the past six months. A lot of stuff have been covered but sometimes it may be hard to imagine about it in real life - real flying. So once you have experienced more of something about weather then I recommend you ask your instructors more about it. And please always do open up your book - your manual - your bible! One convenient way is to use index in some of the back pages to review yourself right to the matters you want to know.

At this point, from now on, you all would be flying solo even more through your PPL & CPL courses. You all would also be doing some cross country flights. So the changing weather, especially in nowadays in the era of global warming and climate change, plays even more role in the safe conduct of your flights. Let me give you some useful and practical safe tips and hints about it which would really concern all your flights of today and of all the near future!!

We're proud of being airmen. We fly high technology equipments that take the whole world and a lot of capitals and resources to build them. We transport people, business-persons, tourists, doctors, scientists, physicists, physicians, environmentalists, corporates, sports - soccer teams, officials, students, honeymoon holiday makers - lovers !! , and many more in our sociological world. We deliver goods and cargo. We fly scientific operations. We build up businesses. We connect the world. No matter what it is we're important parts of the global societies.

Good luck and all the best for your career in aviation and future,

Captain Mom Luang Chititewan Devakul, Pete

* Haze and smoke of late winter time as you all may have experienced.

Poor visability, stable air. High pressure airmass, inversion of temperature lapse rate?!

* Transitioning time to summer and rainy seasons is awaiting you that you may further have much more experiences in some adverse weather conditions.

Unstable air, strong soaring of up-draft and down-draft, better visibility, convective clouds of cumuliforms CU, CB, windy, stormy, summer storm, thunder storm, rain shower, micro-burst, wind-shear!!!

*Key elements for rain are the heat, instability, and humidity.

* Weather charts

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