Aviation Weather Aviation weather can be fairly hard to understand sometimes. The application of theoretical meteorology to the practical world of aviation takes an immense amount of skill. Luckily, our online ground school courses were created with the help of experienced airline Captain and certified meteorologist Doug Morris. However, not all ground schools are lucky…
In our first two reports on this deadly weather phenomena of windshear, we examined the threats it has to aircraft, the dangers, and ways to be more aware of its presence. In this article, we examine some strategies pilots can use to avoid the deadly effects of windshear as part of our series on weather….
We’re going to continue our wind shear series on meteorological topics by discussing how to be recognize the potential for wind shear near an airport. As previously discussed in our first part of Windshear Dangers, this type of weather phenomena can have disastrous effects on aircraft. Other than the obvious dangers of crashing, aircraft can…
Some information was taken from our Commercial Pilot Ground School Course. Windshear occurs in all directions, but for convenience it is measured along the vertical and horizontal axis, thus becoming vertical and horizontal windshear: Vertical windshear: Variations of the horizontal wind component along the vertical axis, resulting in turbulence that may affect the aircraft airspeed…
