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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