Title:
The Puget Sound Convergence Zone
Topic:
How does the Puget Sound Convergence Zone impact local flying?
Speaker(s):
Allen Kam, National Weather Service, Seattle
Brief Description:
The Puget Sound Convergence Zone is a terrain caused weather feature that can form over Puget Sound during any time of the year. This presentation by the National Weather Service will look at how it forms, how it evolves, and what weather problems may occur that affect aviation.
Location of Seminar:
Regal Air
10217 31st Ave West
Everett, WA 98204
Directions to Venue:
From I-5, take the 128th St (exit #186), go west on 128th St for approx 2 miles to Hwy 99, 128th St SW becomes Airport Rd, stay on Airport Rd to the Paine Field entrance, turn Left onto 100th St SW and go to the first stop sign, turn left and the street dead ends into our parking lot. Hangar C-51
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Fly-in Seminar?:
Yes KPAE
Seating:
100
seats at the facility,
47
remaining for online registration.
Registration Information:
Seminar has passed.
Sponsoring Division:
FAA Safety Team
Additional Event Information & Acknowledgement of Industry Sponsor(s):
The FAA Safety Team would like to express our thanks to Regal Air for their continuous support of the FAA General Aviation Safety Program and for providing the venue for this event.
Ever fly into a rain shower, a snow shower, sleet, hail and then pop into brilliant sunshine, all within the space of a few miles? If you have, you have probably experienced flight in the Convergence Zone of western Washington. The Convergence Zone is studied world-wide and you hear the TV forecasters talk about it all the time...but what is it and how does it form? And how in the world does it move up and down the I-5 corridor?
Allen Kam from the National Weather Service will lead you through the formation of this unusual weather phenomenon that pilots in the Northwest have to deal with, especially in the winter months.
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Credit Applicability:
1 Credit for Basic Knowledge Topic 3
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