Warm Weather Operations

Many aviation accidents and incidents are caused by warm weather meteorological phenomena. With FlightSafety's Warm Weather Operations course, you will gain a better understanding of meteorology and will be better equipped to make safety decisions during hail, lightning, high and low altitude turbulence, low level windshear, strong surface crosswinds, and heavy rain.

By improving your ability to interpret warm weather hazards, you will be able to assess the risks involved in trying to beat hazardous weather to the runway or rushing a departure before hazardous weather arrives.

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:

• Definition of rain showers, thunderstorms, hurricanes, typhoons, cyclones, tropical storms, sandstorms, duststorms and dustdevils
• Conditions for the formation of warm weather events in both middle and tropical latitudes
• Worldwide criteria used to classify convective weather as severe or non-severe
• Flight hazards at low and high altitudes associated with convective weather and tropical weather systems
• The ways the flight hazards affect an air traffic system
• Convective and tropical weather analysis and forecast products which are available on a worldwide bases
• The way to effectively use the weather analysis and forecast products to help ensure a safe flight in a warm weather environment
• Examination

• Learn how to operate safely in warm weather conditions
• Interactive, engaging, self-paced course
• Developed by a qualified aviation meteorologist in collaboration with experienced pilots and flight instructors
• Have the benefit of interacting with a live instructor but the convenience of completing the training over the web
• Obtain a FlightSafety Certificate of Completion

• Price: $315 USD/person
• Target Audience: Pilots
• Duration: 2.0 hours
• Delivery: Led by a live instructor over the web
• Credit: Once you have completed the course and successfully passed the test, you are awarded a FlightSafety International certificate of completion. If you are an existing FlightSafety customer, you can also pick up your record of training in myFlightSafety.
• To assure availability of space, we kindly ask that you make your LiveLearning reservation at least one business day in advance