IRFP-01
Metro Review
SUMMARY
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Meteorological definitions
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Weather patterns associated with frontal systems
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Meteorological hazards and their effects on flight and flight planning
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Weather minimum requirements outlined in OPNAVINST 3710.7
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Analytic and prognostic weather charts
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Printed reports and forecasts
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Terminal aerodrome forecasts
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Area forecast
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Winds and temperatures aloft forecast
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Severe weather reports, advisories, and forecasts
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En route procedures including weather information sources and PIREP
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Flight weather packets
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Optimum Path Aircraft Routing System (OPARS)
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Satellite imagery
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Spatial Disorientation
CONCLUSION
As an aviator, you experience the meteorological environment in a unique and
potentially hazardous way. You cope with this environment as a matter of
course. As an instructor, you must help students develop these same skills to
operate effectively and safely within that environment. Understanding weather
phenomena and the hazards to flight they may represent will help keep your
students from becoming "weather statistics!"
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