Product 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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #919095 in Books
• Published on: 2000-04-28
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 192 pages

Customer Reviews

Comprehensive and detailed guide to weather
This book offers excellent indepth descriptions and explanations of weather systems that are relevant to all pilots. A large number of aspects of weather are covered, from small scale cumulus formation to the interactions of entire weather patterns. As a glider pilot, this book has given my a good understanding of how to analyse weather forecasts accurately, and has proved to be extremely useful.

Some of the book is slow going to read, especially when it starts getting too technical, but if you are interested in aviation then a large portion of this book will be relevant to your flying.

too complex
This is not very user friendly book. I'm not a professional weatherman so this is far too complex. I would have like more down-to-earth definitions of different weather phenomenons. Now it's just painful to read in case you dont have any baseline experience anything about weather.

Definitely not for beginners