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Embry Riddle Aero University - ASASA - Aviation Safety & Security Archives
JFL TL556 .B77
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JFL TL556 .B77
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Embry Riddle Aero University - ASASA - Aviation Safety & Security Archives
MS-006 X00117
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MS-006 X00117
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Embry Riddle Aero University - CIRCCOLL - Circulating Collection
TL556.B77 1997
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TL556.B77 1997
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9780071799720
9780070087613
007008761
9780070087613
007008761
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Table of Contents
From the Book - Regular Print - Fifth edition.
1 Weather Flying 1 --
2 A Little Theory for Weather Flying 5 --
That Important Dewpoint 5 --
How Air Cools 6 --
Season and Time of Day 8 --
Terrain 9 --
Wind 10 --
Clouds 13 --
3 Some Thoughts on Checking Weather 17 --
It Isn't Easy 17 --
It's Approved and Official 21 --
How It Works 22 --
You Are the Meteorologist 25 --
You Are the Captain! 29 --
4 Checking Weather and the Big Picture 31 --
Big Picture 32 --
No Surprises 36 --
Satellites and Some NEXRAD 36 --
What Do Satellites Show? 37 --
Valid Old Map Thoughts 41 --
Where We Find This Computerized Weather 41 --
Get the Picture First 43 --
On Days Off, Too 43 --
A Deeper Look at the Map 44 --
Watch the Slow Lows 49 --
Wind Speed Tells a Story 50 --
Highs Are Not Always Nice 51 --
Look Up 52 --
A Meteorologist's Big Picture from the Web 58 --
5 Getting That Weather Information 61 --
Always Learning Where and How 61 --
Some Extra Sources 63 --
No One Said It Was Easy 67 --
Hired Help 68 --
Opening Remarks to the FSS-and Ourselves 69 --
Synoptic Again 70 --
Look Ahead 71 --
Real Thing 71 --
6 Weather Details-What They Tell Us 77 --
VFR-Not Easy 77 --
MVFR 78 --
MVFR Is Not Static 79 --
IFR-Not to Worry 79 --
Test the Forecast 80 --
Late Weather 80 --
Regulations Aren't the Important Criteria 81 --
Pollution and Visibility 82 --
How Do You Feel? 83 --
More about Wind 84 --
Altimeter Setting 85 --
Temperature and Dewpoint Again 85 --
PIREPs 85 --
On the Ground, Too 86 --
Summing Up 87 --
7 Checking Weather for the Route 89 --
Weather Is Mostly Good 90 --
Something on Fronts 90 --
Occlusions and Zippers 91 --
Large-Area Weather 91 --
Important Northeast Corner 92 --
Go the Short Way 94 --
It Takes Time to Know 95 --
Why and If 98 --
Don't Fear Weather... 100 --
... Or Worry about It 100 --
8 Equipment Needs for Weather Flying 101 --
It's Farther Than You Think 101 --
Fuel and the Law 106 --
Fuel Again 106 --
Instruments and Autopilots 107 --
Where the Instruments Live 109 --
We Can Keep It Simple 112 --
A Little More to Do a Lot 113 --
Things Can Be Better 114 --
Even Better 115 --
Future Will Be Even Better 119 --
Protected Airplane 120 --
Power for Instruments 122 --
Lighted Well 125 --
Paperwork and Gadgets Are Equipment, Too 126 --
Go Fast Slowly 127 --
Good Housekeeping 128 --
An Extra Hand 129 --
Navigation 130 --
Radar and Lightning Detection Systems 130 --
9 Temperature, an Important Part of Weather Flying 131 --
Temperature and Density 131 --
We Better Figure It Out 132 --
How Hot, How High? 134 --
Engines Don't Like It Hot 134 --
10 Some Psychology of Weather Flying 137 --
Self-Discipline 138 --
Think, for Real 139 --
11 Turbulence and Flying It 141 --
Kinds of Turbulence 143 --
How We Fly Turbulence 144 --
Convective-Layer Turbulence 145 --
It's Rougher Than You Think 147 --
Dust Devils 148 --
Turbulence Near Mountains and Ridges 148 --
Mountain Waves 150 --
Turbulence Up High 159 --
Where Is It? 163 --
Tropopause and CAT 164 --
Tropopause Is Important 164 --
Shear 167 --
Where Is Shear? 169 --
Thermals 174 --
12 VFR-Flying Weather Visually 175 --
VFR 176 --
Famous 180 --
176 A Point to Remember 178 --
Snow Is Different 179 --
Keep Calm 180 --
More Snow 180 --
Towers 181 --
VFR Navigation-and the Important Map 181 --
Not Only Airports 185 --
Where Is the Wind? 186 --
Near Cities 187 --
Summertime 187 --
Thunderstorms and VFR 188 --
VFR on Top 189 --
Using Electronics When VFR 191 --
Without Radio 192 --
13 About Keeping Proficient Flying Instruments 195 --
Practice 200 --
Self-Checking 204 --
With Full Instruments 205 --
14 Thoughts on Flying Technically Advanced Aircraft 209 --
Single-Pilot Operation in a Two-Pilot World 210 --
Dependence on Augmented Indications 211 --
Electronic Seduction 212 --
Programming Thoughts 216 --
Summary of Flying Basics in a Technically Advanced World 217 --
15 Thunderstorms and Flying Them 219 --
What Are They? 219 --
What Is Tough about a Thunderstorm? 220 --
Tornadoes 221 --
Hail 223 --
Bad Part 224 --
Their Life Cycle 227 --
A Clue 230 --
Different Kinds 230 --
How High? 231 --
Cloud Layers 234 --
They Grow Fast 234 --
What's Inside All Those Clouds? 236 --
What's Outside All Those Clouds? 236 --
Thunderstorm Detection Systems 237 --
Airborne Radar 239 --
NEXRAD 242 --
Lightning Detection Systems 247 --
Data-Linked Lightning Mapping Information 252 --
ATC and Thunderstorms 253 --
More about Air-Mass Thunderstorms 255 --
A Cloud Base Hint 255 --
Other Air-Mass Thunderstorms 256 --
Dry Climate and Thunderstorms 256 --
Frontal Thunderstorms 259 --
Surface Wind Tells 260 --
How to Tell a Front's Toughness 260 --
Prefrontal Squall Lines 260 --
Some Rules 261 --
If We Fly Through 261 --
At Night 263 --
Where to Bore In 263 --
How to Fly It 263 --
Are We Scared? 265 --
Something to Be Said for Rain 267 --
Fly! 267 --
Electrical Discharge 267 --
Static and Radio 269 --
Noise Is Annoying 270 --
Almost through the Storm 270 --
Warm Front Thunderstorms 271 --
Low Down 271 --
Thunderstorms as We Arrive and Land 272 --
Don't Race Thunderstorms 273 --
Missed Approach in Thunderstorms 274 --
After the Missed Approach and Other Thoughts 274 --
16 Ice and Flying It 277 --
About Ice 281 --
Dealing with Ice 283 --
Propeller Is Important 287 --
Wing Deicers and Anti-Ice 288 --
Boots 289 --
Hot Wings 291 --
Fluid Anti-Icing 291 --
We Have to See 292 --
How We Fly Ice 294 --
Is Your Airplane Equipped to Fly Ice? 296 --
Propellers, Jet Inlets, and Other Fixtures 297 --
Ice Flying Starts on the Ground 297 --
Where We Find Ice 298 --
Temperature Again 300 --
Where Are the Tops-and the Bottom? 300 --
Fronts and Ice 302 --
An Ice Airplane 303 --
Not Always in Clouds on Instruments 303 --
Warm Front 304 --
Fishing to Get Out of Ice 306 --
Taking Off in a Front 307 --
Learning Time 307 --
Orographic Effect Again 307 --
Cold Front 308 --
Flying to Feel Ice 308 --
Coming Home 310 --
17 Taking Off in Bad Weather 313 --
Altimeter Setting 313 --
Be Prepared 314 --
Let's Go 314 --
Radio Thoughts 316 --
Don't Be Bashful! 318 --
Off We Go 321 --
In the Stuff Quick 322 --
How about the Weather? 323 --
Once in the Air 324 --
Thunderstorms Again 324 --
Thinking 326 --
18 Weather Flying En Route 329 --
Think Ahead 330 --
What's It Like? 331 --
Forced Landing with Little Time to See 333 --
All Is Normal and It's Time to Get There 334 --
19 Landing in Bad Weather 335 --
Flying the Approach 336 --
Instrument Part 336 --
Close in, Things Get Tight 339 --
Stick with It 340 --
When We See Again 342 --
Autopilots Doing the Work 344 --
Circling to Land 344 --
To Touch the Ground 344 --
Low Visibility 345 --
Ground Fog 345 --
On the Ground 346 --
An Approach Briefing 347 --
Toughest Case 348 --
20 Teaching Yourself to Fly Weather 351 --
Where's the Emphasis? 351 --
Learning the Weather 352 --
21 Something on Judgment 357 --
Limitations 357.
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