Aviation Meteorology

Salient features:

· Covers the whole range of syllabus of all categories of pilot courses prescribed by DGCA, particularly CPL, ATPL, the ultimate courses.

· As per the examination system of DGCA, multiple Choice (objective) questions with answers (about 1300) have been provided at the end of each chapter.

· Also provided a miscellaneous Question Bank at the end of the book.

· World Area Forecasts such as grid point data in digital and numerical form, prognostic charts of significant weather, SIGMET information, VOLMET Broad Cast are described sufficiently.

· Meteorological observations consists of units of measurement, observatory set up, automatic weather observing system are covered.

· Brief description of weather satellites, IMD Meteorological Data Processing system are given.

· Aviation weather reports and Forecasts codes have been given which were evolved by WMO in consultation with ICAO.

Great care has been taken to explain each term of the code – METAR, SPECI, CODAR, WINTEM Reports and TAF, ARFOR, ROFOR forecasts