Risk Matrix / Hazardous Attitudes
Avoiding Risk… In this topic we’ll talk about two different ways to avoid risk. The first is using the risk assessment matrix as described in…
Chart Supplement
Because there wasn’t already enough info on your Sectional Chart Since the FAA was only able to cram five thousand and one pieces of info…
Terminal Area Charts
TAC Charts Please don’t call them TAC Charts (you are literally saying Terminal Area Chart Charts). In any case, these charts contain awesome detailed information…
FLYWAY Charts
VFR FLYWAY Charts So what exactly is a FLYWAY chart? Well, it’s a chart that depicts VFR FLYWAYs of course. A VFR FLYWAY is a…
AIRMETS / SIGMETS
AIRMETs and SIGMETs The big scary warnings of when not to fly! If you remember almost nothing from this TOPIC, then just REMEMBER these two…
Surface / Prog Charts
Surface Analysis and Prognostic Charts Surface analysis and Prog charts are my favorite way to get a big picture view of what the weather will…
Radar Summary Charts
To sum it up, ya there’s a lotta rain out there…. Watch the video above, and after that, take notes below. What you need to…
PIREPS
Pilot Reports This isn’t a report card of how good of a pilot you are (but good pilots do know how to read PIREPS). A…
Mountain Weather
Nice Hat! I want a hat like that! Looks pretty cool! Now we’ve already talked about clouds, but in this TOPIC we are going to…
Thunderstorms / Convective Activity
Ain’t that pretty?! Well ya, but it would probably be a lot less pretty if you were flying in the middle of it rather than…