Meteorology and Flight
Subtitle: A Pilot's Guide to Weather (Flying & Gliding)
Edition: 2 edition
Publisher: A & C Black
Published: March 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780713644463
Subjects: Air sports & recreations; Meteorology; Science; Transportation; Science/Mathematics; Aviation - Piloting & Flight Instruction; Weather; Earth Sciences - Meteorology & Climatology
Description: Intended for pilots of sailpanes, microlights, hang gliders and balloons, this resource contains practical advice and information on both large- and small-scale weather systems. It covers the development of depressions and anticyclones, fronts, convection, cumulus and cumulonimbus clouds, waves, wave flow and how to fly in waves, local winds, airflow over ridges and mountains, visibility, weather maps and forecasting, METAR and TAF reports and MetFAX services.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Air in motion
label: 1; title: The development of depressions and anticyclones
label: 2; title: Fronts
label: 3; title: Stability in the atmosphere
label: 4; title: Convection and cumulus clouds
label: 5; title: The organization of cumulus
label: 6; title: Cumulonimbus
label: 7; title: Waves
label: 8; title: Some theoretical aspects of wave flow
label: 9; title: Waves and cumulus
label: 10; title: Flying in waves
label: 11; title: Local winds
label: 12; title: Airflow over ridges and mountains
label: 13; title: Visibility
label: 14; title: Weather maps and forecasts
label: 15; title: Satellites
label: 16; title: Gliding weather
label: 17; title: Glossary of Meteorological terms; title: Appendix 1; title: Abbreviations used in Met. documentation; title: Maps of observing stations; title: Weather codes and symbols; title: Appendix 2; title: METAR and TAF reports; title: Appendix 3; title: Numbers for telephone and MetFAX services; title: Index