Weather Briefings Pr Copy

VFR Weather Briefings It’s always nice when someone else helps you to decipher the weather.  In the old days, it was standard to always make a phone call and have a professional weather briefer decipher the weather maps for you and help you understand the full weather picture that you were looking at out the […]

Weather Fronts Pr Copy

Don’t stand in front of that Front! Well actually let’s say don’t stand fly in front of that front.  A Front is a boundary or transition zone between two air masses of different densities (think oil and vinegar).  Air masses of different densities don’t mix well, thus the layer in between them is the FRONT.  […]

Reading the Weather – TAFs Pr Copy

Terminal Aerodrome Forecasts TAFs are very similar to METARs in the sense that they use the same coding abbreviations and a very similar structure.  Obviously the main difference between a METAR and a TAF is that the TAF is a forecast while the METAR is just a quick snapshot in time, and is instantly old […]

Reading the Weather – METARs Pr Copy

METARs METARs are a snapshot in time, a simple observation of what the weather was doing at a particular moment.  They are an excellent tool to tell you if the weather is okay right now, but offer no forecast into the future. REMEMBER: They are a direct observation of what is happening at and over […]

Weather Fronts SC

Don’t stand in front of that Front! Well actually let’s say don’t stand fly in front of that front.  A Front is a boundary or transition zone between two air masses of different densities (think oil and vinegar).  Air masses of different densities don’t mix well, thus the layer in between them is the FRONT.  […]

Weather Briefings Pr

VFR Weather Briefings It’s always nice when someone else helps you to decipher the weather.  In the old days, it was standard to always make a phone call and have a professional weather briefer decipher the weather maps for you and help you understand the full weather picture that you were looking at out the […]

Weather Fronts Pr

Don’t stand in front of that Front! Well actually let’s say don’t stand fly in front of that front.  A Front is a boundary or transition zone between two air masses of different densities (think oil and vinegar).  Air masses of different densities don’t mix well, thus the layer in between them is the FRONT.  […]

Reading the Weather – TAFs Pr

Terminal Aerodrome Forecasts TAFs are very similar to METARs in the sense that they use the same coding abbreviations and a very similar structure.  Obviously the main difference between a METAR and a TAF is that the TAF is a forecast while the METAR is just a quick snapshot in time, and is instantly old […]

Reading the Weather – METARs Pr

METARs METARs are a snapshot in time, a simple observation of what the weather was doing at a particular moment.  They are an excellent tool to tell you if the weather is okay right now, but offer no forecast into the future. REMEMBER: They are a direct observation of what is happening at and over […]

Weather Briefings

VFR Weather Briefings It’s always nice when someone else helps you to decipher the weather.  In the old days, it was standard to always make a phone call and have a professional weather briefer decipher the weather maps for you and help you understand the full weather picture that you were looking at out the […]