20806255Aviation Weather
Course Information
Description
Aviation Weather introduces and explores fundamental atmospheric weather and climate principles as they apply to flight operations, including temperature, wind, clouds, precipitation, and storm systems. This course also examines and analyzes aviation-specific hazards including turbulence and icing.
Total Credits
3
Course Competencies
  1. Develop approaches to creating a sense of community and connection

  2. Explore the atmosphere’s structure, composition, and meteorological variables

  3. Analyze moisture’s role in the atmosphere via water vapor, clouds, and precipitation

  4. Distinguish the forces that create and affect the wind along with large scale atmospheric circulations and local wind systems

  5. Explain vertical motion and atmospheric stability

  6. Examine air masses and fronts

  7. Contrast thunderstorms, hurricanes, etc. and their impact on aviation

  8. Categorize aviation weather hazards such as wind shear, turbulence, icing, visibility, etc.

  9. Evaluate surface and upper air weather maps

  10. Create and evaluate thermodynamic diagrams such as the Skew-T Log-P diagram

  11. Interpret aviation code messaging such as meteorological observations Terminal Aerodrome Forecasts (TAF), etc.

  12. Build a pilot weather briefing and weather map analysis review

  13. Evaluate a peer reviewed science article about aviation meteorology

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