Meteorology for Pilots made Simple – Geoff Day
Pooleys stock code: BTG078/Share
The aim of this book is to cover most of the PPL Met Exam syllabus items. The intention is to concentrate on some of the aspects of meteorology which will be of practical use to PPL pilots, based on my own experiences, and thus help prepare the aspiring pilot for the real world of coping with weather when flying in the UK. There is a bias towards aspects of met which will affect helicopters.
It is based on my own experiences of flying throughout the UK in varying weather conditions, and along the way trying to make sense of the instruction that I had been given in meteorology – mainly by trainers who understood met, but many of whom did not themselves fly. That is not by way of offering criticism, but I just think that when you actually have to cope with the weather it encourages a more practical understanding of it.
As with my book on Helicopter Aerodynamics, I have tried to make things simple. If I have over–simplified I make no apology. If it helps to bring some understanding to those who, like me, find some of the more traditional text books over–complicated (although meticulously technically correct) then I am happy.
I have included some notes on Threat and Error Management in many of the chapters.
Size: A4, half-canadian bound. 122 full-colour pages.
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The aim of this book is to cover most of the PPL Met Exam syllabus items. The intention is to concentrate on some of the aspects of meteorology which will be of practical use to PPL pilots, based on my own experiences, and thus help prepare the aspiring pilot for the real world of coping with weather when flying in the UK. There is a bias towards aspects of met which will affect helicopters.
It is based on my own experiences of flying throughout the UK in varying weather conditions, and along the way trying to make sense of the instruction that I had been given in meteorology – mainly by trainers who understood met, but many of whom did not themselves fly. That is not by way of offering criticism, but I just think that when you actually have to cope with the weather it encourages a more practical understanding of it.
As with my book on Helicopter Aerodynamics, I have tried to make things simple. If I have over–simplified I make no apology. If it helps to bring some understanding to those who, like me, find some of the more traditional text books over–complicated (although meticulously technically correct) then I am happy.
I have included some notes on Threat and Error Management in many of the chapters.
Size: A4, half-canadian bound. 122 full-colour pages.
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