Airplanes Weather Wind Shear 
Pilot Institute
JANUARY 3, 2025
It acts as a real-time visual indicator of wind direction and speed, helping you make important decisions. Although modern airports utilize advanced weather monitoring systems, windsocks are still valuable because they provide immediate, visual feedback that you can rely on. Let’s see how to figure out the wind direction.
Greg Brown's Flying Carpet Blog
AUGUST 4, 2024
It includes discussions on high-speed aerodynamics, automation, wake turbulence, high-altitude and adverse weather, air carrier operations, transport airplane performance, and cockpit professionalism and leadership.
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Flying Magazine
APRIL 25, 2024
Over the last 25 years, I have been asked to speak on various aviation weather topics at dozens of aviation events and gatherings. During these events, it’s quite common for a pilot to walk up and ask me about how I handled my most challenging flight as it relates to weather. I spent an hour looking at the weather before we departed.
Plane and Pilot
JANUARY 8, 2025
My time studying the weather proved itself well spent as the flight to Portland was uneventful and a beautiful sight. As we walked from the wharf to breakfast, I saw that peak wind gusts were tickling the 40-knot mark. It doesnt have any limits for wind. The hourly forecast called for winds to lessen around 4 p.m.,
Plane and Pilot
FEBRUARY 28, 2025
Anytime the airplane is heading downhill toward terra firma, our attention should be on the instruments in the clouds, and out the windows when the sky is clear. We often end up at higher altitudes to escape the wind shear layer, cumulus buildups, and turbulence below. Lets get that done before we start the descent.
Vintage Aviation News
FEBRUARY 12, 2025
With carrier aviation still in its infancy, airships could fly further than many airplanes of the day and remain in the air for days on end without the need to land to refuel and replenish their supplies. Moffett, christening USS Macon (ZRS-5) at Akron, Ohio, March 11, 1933.
Pilot Institute
OCTOBER 17, 2024
These weather alerts each have their own role: AIRMETs warn about moderate conditions like turbulence, icing, and limited visibility, which can affect smaller or less equipped aircraft. SIGMETs alert pilots to more severe weather events like thunderstorms, volcanic ash, or strong turbulence that could pose serious risks to any flight.
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