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e-Learning -- A new way to learn aviation weather
There's little debate from pilots that weather impacts our flying activity more than any other physical factor. Ask a hundred pilots about why they cancel or postpone a flight and 99 of them will normally say the weather is what kept them grounded. The pilot and airplane are normally willing, but we can't always say that about the weather. Weather plays a significant role in our decision-making and is probably the number one "worry" that every pilot has before many flights. The weather does not discriminate; it doesn't matter if you are an instrument rated 10,000-hour ATP, student pilot or somewhere in between. Every pilot must yield to Mother Nature's bad side.
Most of our weather education has been through reading text books, magazine articles and the occasional tutorial online. This material is filled with generalizations and rules of thumb that don't always apply especially when Mother Nature is at her worst. With respect to weather, the devil is in the details. Very few of these traditional learning resources are up-to-date with the latest technology and weather products freely available online*. Traditional material tends to lack a detailed description on how to interpret and utilize these tools within the context of your preflight regiment. During your primary and instrument training, your formal weather instruction was either very general or nonexistent - enough to pass the written and practical exams. As a result, many pilots feel their aviation weather knowledge is seriously behind the technology that has emerged online (especially in the last five to ten years).
If you feel that your weather planning is like building a jigsaw puzzle without ever seeing a picture of the puzzle, then Chesapeake Aviation Training has a product that may be designed for you. It is called online e-Learning. This is not a new technology, but one that has been under-utilized in aviation training. Aviation weather topics make superb e-Learning topics. All live e-Learning sessions will be presented by Scott Dennstaedt who is a former NWS research meteorologist and FAA-certificated instrument flight instructor. You may want to consider private e-Learning sessions tailored to your specific needs. This one-on-one training can consist of a preflight review of the weather before a flight or you may want to follow the complete syllabus designed by Chesapeake Aviation Training. *All Internet-based weather products shown in these e-Learning sessions are encapsulated in The Weather Report aviation weather forums. Note: Any e-Learning sessions may be recorded. Recorded e-Learning sessions are the sole property, copyright and intellectual property of Chesapeake Aviation Training or its agents. Chesapeake Aviation Training reserves the right to rebroadcast, repackage, edit or resell any recorded e-Learning session. All proceeds resulting from recorded sessions will benefit only Chesapeake Aviation Training or its agents. |
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