Table of Contents TP 13524
TURBULENCE
- Clear Air Turbulence
- VIRGA
THUNDERSTORMS
- Hazards: turbulence, hail, rain, icing, altimetry, lightning, gust fronts, downbursts, microbursts, windshear
WEATHER MAPS AND PROGNOSTIC CHARTS
- Times issued/ validity periods
- Symbols/ decoding
- Surface Weather Analysis
- Upper Level Charts - ANAL (850mb, 700mb, 500mb & 250mb)
- Upper Level Charts - PROG (FL240, FL340, FL450)
- Significant Weather Prognostic Chart FL100-250 (700-400mb) & FL250-600
- (400 -100 mb)
- Satellite Images
- Radar Images
AVIATION FORECASTS
- Times issued/ validity periods
- Decoding
- Graphical Area Forecasts (GFA/AIRMET)
- Terminal Area Forecasts (TAF)
- Upper Level Winds and Temperature Forecasts (FD)
- Significant In-flight Weather Warning Message (SIGMET)
AIRCRAFT ICING
- Type of ice formation - rime, clear
- Reporting criteria
- Cloud types and icing
- Freezing rain and drizzle
- Icing in clear air/hoar frost
- Collection efficiency
METEOROLOGICAL SERVICES AVAILABLE TO PILOTS
- Flight Information Centres (FIC)
- Aviation Weather Web Site
- Pilot's Automatic Telephone Weather Answering Service (PATWAS)
- Automatic Terminal Information Service (ATIS)
- VOLMET (HF) Broadcast
AVIATION WEATHER REPORTS
- Aviation Routine Weather Report (METAR)
- SPECI
- Decoding
- AWOS
- Pilot Reports (PIREP/AIREP)