Meteorology Seminars - Brantford COPA Flight 148

These will be presented as video/audio modules, with ample time set aside for discussion, running in the evenings every two weeks or so. They will be led by Orest Skrypuch.

We are extending an invitation to all Brantford Flying Club

Staff &Members, as well as to BFC Ground School students,

even if they are not yet local COPA Members.

The first series will cover Skew-T Log(p) Diagrams, over three evenings. There is no registration, just show up. All sessions will be held in the terminal building of the Brantford Flying Club.

Start time for all sessions is 6:30pm.

Schedule:
             I – Thursday, March 08 - repeated on Thursday, March 22
               II – Thursday, March 29 - repeated on Thursday, April 12
               III - Thursday, April 26 - repeated on Thursday, May 3

Thermodynamic charts such as the Skew-T log (p) diagram are one of the best kept secrets in aviation weather.

Session I - Radiosondes and the Base Diagram Parcel Theory

Session II - Stability Indices Weather Prediction Modules

Cloud Bases, Tops & Layers

Session III - Temperature Inversions Icing Potential

Turbulence

The Skew-T log (p) diagram allows the pilot to "drill down” over a particular location to identify or describe adverse weather better in time and space than any other single chart or diagram. Icing potential, cloud bases, cloud tops, cloud layers, turbulence, non-convective low level wind shear, haze, instability, thunderstorm potential, precipitation type, cloud type, fog and visibility are just some of the adverse weather elements that can be inferred by this diagram.

Brantford COPA Flight 148