Meteorology and Flight: A Pilot's Guide to Weather

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Covering both large and small-scale weather systems and illustrated with line drawings, graphs and satellite photographs throughout, this new edition of "Meteorology and Flight" has been fully revised and updated. Practical and comprehensive, it includes: 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.

Author Bio

Tom Bradbury served in the British Meteorology Office for over 40 years on many RAF airfields overseas. He has acted as a Met. forecaster at gliding and microlight contests, and has accompanied the British Gliding Team to Finland, France and Germany.