AVIATION 120

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AVIATION 120

• Meteorology

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Quiz 1

• If you know the following, you will do well
• Aviation Weather services
• AWIS, AWBS, AWWS, PATWAS
• How to get a briefing
• Aviation Weather observations
• Wind, cloud, temperature, RVR
• METARs
• Know each group
• AWOS differences
• SPECIs
• Criteria for issuing
• PIREPs
• Know turbulence and icing reporting criteria
• Know the difference between normal and urgent
  PIREPs
• Practice decoding
• GFAs
• Issue and valid times, layout, format, content,
  applicability
• AIRMETs and SIGMETs
• Weather criteria for issuance