The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-02-02
CAP WILL INITIATE CADET PRE-FLIGHT
 TRAINING FEB. E
Neil Friedman in Charge of Corps of Students
 Aged 15, 16, Y

Age0 ID, 10, II
 In record tine-just 3ls months after activation of the senior group the Juneau Civil Air Patrol Squad ron will initiate one of the two ma jor projects of the national CAP: a ore-flight training program for stu dens cadets. Tn the original plan of organization, experienced officials had set next fall as reasonable time for the new Juneau squadron to be able to undertake this project.
 The cadet program will be put into effect February Is, it was an- nounced by Maj. Allan G. Marcum, squadron commander, at the semi monthly meeting last night.
 Col Neil Friedman will be com mandant of cadets, with Graham L. Rowntree as cadet sergeant major and Elaine Molvar, assistan. sergeant-major.
 Thus, the Juneau squadron. first CAP unit in Southeast Alaska, be- comes part of the national pro- gram in which nearly 100000 cadets are enrolled. Credit is given by many high schools for CAP courses such as will be given in Juneau. Conditions of enrolment and ar arrangements for making application will be announced well before the February Is meeting.
 It. Stanley Tyler. who succeeded Robert F. Smith as training officer last month when Smith moved to McGrath, presented an outline oi the all-over training and instruc- tion program for the squadron last night. The record will be kept tol each member, showing number o1 hours completed in each subject.
 Before the instruction period, It. Charles Porter. operations officer, outlined specifications for operat- ing the L-5 aircraft for the squad ron, recently ferried here by him. self and Ralph w. Melander, assist ant operations officer.
 These included CAP pilot eligi- bility qualifications, rated pilot ana pre-flight requirements, minimum and maximum flight time; take-ott flight and landing rules, safety reg ulations, aircraft and maintenance specifications, general operating pro cedures, a general synopsis and 6 table of official abbreviations for place names. Pilot qualifications will be mimeographed for distribution to the squadron.
 Weather FOrecaster
 Perry Landgren, weather fore caster, went to the meeting to give the instruction in meteorology-and remained to fill out an application complete with finger prints and Identification picture.
 In general talk of interest to both the uninformed lavman and the weather experts present, Land gren emphasized the features of an aviation weather forecast.
 He described each of the factors going into the formal forecast ot the synoptic situation: base and top of cloud layers, upper winds and turbulence, freezing level, icing and other conditions of pressure temperature and moisture making up the outlook" for 12 hours, with the forecast 12 hours beyond.
 In illustration, Landgren dis played recent local charts of sur face conditions as well as those at $50, 5000, 10000 and 18,000 feet from which a composite picture of weather is obtained. GAP members learned, too, all about the big snow- storm last weekend in Seattle = where it started and how it got there, via the heat wave through Point Barrow) Answering a ques- ton, Landgren told of somewhat surprising cooperation by the Rus sians, particularly from eight north eastern Siberia stations and others from Kamchatka on.
 An hour after Landgren began any CAP weather neophytes were on speaking terms with dynes, lso- bars, millibars and such characters
 Porter returned to complete the