Aviation weather
Aviation Technology · Grade 10 · about 40 minutes
The elements of weather (wind, temperature, pressure, humidity, clouds, precipitation), how each affects an aircraft in flight, the main cloud types and their significance, how weather is measured, and why understanding weather is essential to safe flying.
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- 6 sections of explanation, worked examples and diagrams
- 1 practice task with hints and worked answers
- A quiz that marks itself as you go
- Your progress kept across every subject you take
Other lessons in this sub-strand
- Aviation weather
- Weather in the atmosphere
- Wind as a weather element
- Wind on the runway
- Temperature and humidity
- Pressure and QNH
- Visibility and precipitation
- Cloud families
- Thunderstorm clouds
- Low cloud and fog
- Measuring the weather
- METAR basics
- Kenya weather hazards
- Weather and flight decisions
- Aviation weather as a safety duty