With the Warm Weather Operations course, you will learn to describe the characteristics of warm weather that can cause aircraft accidents and incidents, identify the ways to avoid hazardous warm weather phenomena, and be able to explain various products such as charts and satellite images that aid in anticipating hazardous warm weather occurrences.
The course covers the following topics:
- Introduction and Course Overview
- Convective Weather
- Meteorological Conditions for Formation of Convective Weather
- Thunderstorms
- Meteorological Conditions for Formation of Tropical Weather Systems
- Flight Hazards Related to Convective Weather Systems & Tropical Weather Systems
- Sandstorms, Duststorms, and Dust Devils
- Worldwide Forecast and Current Weather Products for Convective Weather
- Course Summary
- Post-Course Assessment (Exam)