Mike Wickson - Meteorology For Pilots

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Preface

This book has been compiled to prepare the ab initioand improver student pilot for all the British Civil Aviation Authority examinations in Meteorology. The coverage is more than sufficient to meet the requirements for the European Joint Aviation Requirements (JAR) Airline Pilots licences. It also provides extensive chapters to cater for most of the other world wide meteorology licensing needs.

The book is recommended as a study text by the UK Civil Aviation Authority.

Acknowledgements

The assistance of Maurice Crewe and the staff and facilities of the National Meteorological Library, Bracknell, is gratefully acknowledged. The permission to reproduce diagrams through the National Air Traffic Service is much appreciated.

Thanks are also due to the United States Marine Corps and the McDonnell Douglas Aircraft Corporation for permission to include photographs of exceptional hail damage to an AV-8B Harrier aircraft. Additionally to Captain Julie S. Simmonds and Captain David M. A. Wells for their cloud photographs, also to Phil Garner for permission to publish his photograph of a funnel cloud.

Particular gratitude is extended to the Commander Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command, Stennis Space Center MS USA for permission to publish the upper wind charts in , prepared by the Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Detachment, Asheville, NC, USA.

The active support of GASCo (General Aviation Safety Council) and in particular of its Meteorology member, James Alexander Morrison is registered. James, with his background as an experienced Boeing 737 captain with an MSc in Applied Meteorology from Reading, has been most diligent and helpful in preparing this new e-book edition.