There will be a charge for this course:
Instructor: Greg MacMaster, Aviation Meteorologist & sUAS Certified Operator (231-360-0636)
Course accessible online.
Title: Aviation Weather for sUAS Operations
Online Course time: 2 Hours. (2 :50 minute segments)
This Aviation Weather for sUAS course activity is geared and designed for the newest advancement in aviation technology - sUAS. Without aircraft classifications, which aids the operator in decision making, the need for a micro-level weather course is needed to educate the soon-to-be sUAS pilot of weather conditions that would affect their flight operations, especially in and around structures where turbulence and windshear is prevelant. Much of what is being learned on this scale has been through the school of hard-knocks and crashes, until now.
The purpose of this course is to create a level of awareness on a micro-scale about weather and certain weather conditions that would affect your flight, suspected windshear locations and causes, and to look up current and forecast weather to help in their decision making process thereby reducing mishaps and accidents. This class goes far beyond the typical 'weather access to data and information' and teaches you how to use it effectively.
Fulfills the requirements for Aeronautical Knowledge in Aviation Weather
Topics
- Atmosphere & Global Circulation
- Weather & Climate
- Clouds & Stability
- Windshear (Both fixed-wing and Quadrotor sUAS)
- Weather Forecasting
- Will learn
- Atmosphere & Global Circulation
- Weather & Climate
- Clouds & Stability
- Weather Forecasting - Type and sources
- Know Before You Fly Attitude
- Will be able to recite
- Air Mass Types
- Lapse Rates
- Thermal Inversions, both cause and effect
- Stages of Thunderstorm Development including outflow boundaries
- Types of Fog & Clouds including their meaning
- Windshear (speed & directional) (Vertical & Horizontal)
- Will be able to distinguish
- Pictures of different cloud types and meaning
- Thermal Inversion layer and expected flight complications
- Surface wind vs. winds at altitude including change of direction
- Stable vs. Unstable airmass and flight dynamics over water and land
- Vertical and horizontal windshear and expected outcomes
- Not all sUAS's will react the same under certain weather conditions
- A Quiz will follow