Type of bind: Paperback
EAN num: 9781560270720
ISBN number: 1560270721
Label: Aviation Supplies & Academics
Manufacturer: Aviation Supplies & Academics
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 190
Printing Date: 1991-04
Publishing house: Aviation Supplies & Academics
Sale Popularity Level: 2525153
Studio: Aviation Supplies & Academics
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Product Description:
Describes how to anticipate hazardous weather conditions, avoid them in flight, and get out of them when encountered.
Among the topics covered in clear detail are:
The Ups and Downs of Air: showing that fronts, low pressure areas, mountains and jet streams really do only one thing - lift air.
Stability: Explaining the relationship of atmospheric stability to observed weather.
Air-Mass Thunderstorms: Describes what they are, how to avoid them and how (if you must) to fly through them.
Steady-State Thunderstorms: Presents all you need to know about these fearsome tornado-spawning thunderstorms.
Lightning: The dangers to airplanes, and which fuels and systems are most valuable (and vulnerable).
Icing: The hows and whys of structural icing, with icing avoidance and other aspects of this flight-crippling condition.
Nocturnal Thunderstorms: Takes the mystery our of the cause and effect of these beautiful killers.
Downburst: Discusses the downdraft-shear phenomena which caused the 1975 Eastern airlines crash at JFK.
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This product is same as described in purchase. Delivery was very quickly and good conditions. I recommend this product and provider. Sincerely. Jose Pena
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This book is for the weather novice who doesn't want to get a PhD in meteorology, but still wants to stay out of trouble. While most of the information about thunderstorms is available elsewhere, his section on icing was particularly valuable. I would recommend this to any pilot who seems lost about weather reports or charts. If you know your way around surface analysis charts and lifted index charts then this book might be too simple for you.
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For all pilots! I purchased this book over ten years ago and I try to reread it each spring. This book condenses need to know information into useable "bites," and makes weather interesting and understandable. You will learn things about temperature dew point relationships and many other aspects of weather and weather flying that you may never hear any other place. If you are looking for a book that will better prepare you for the dynamics of weather flying, this is one of the very best.
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This is a must read book for any pilot who does serious weather flying. Dennis takes the mumbo jumbo and puts it in terms that are very easy to understand. With thirty two years of flying under my belt, this is the only book that makes practical sense of very technical issues.
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Good detail, personal tips & hints that I haven't seen in any other text. Although it is US orientated, it contains a wealth of interesting information.
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