AVIATION WEATHER FORUM

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AVIATION WEATHER FORUM

• Bethesda, Maryland
• July 25 -26, 2000

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General Aviation's Training Need
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GA is not like the airlines
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GA aircraft/pilots are less weather tolerant

• 65 weather accidents - 54 Fatal
• 70 VFR into IMC (40 fatal acc.).

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Need more information - Less data

• 1-800-Can I Get There

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Never try to teach a pig to sing.

• You wont like the results
• It annoys the pig.

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Training attempts to compensate for poorly
designed systems

• Easier to train new pilots?
• Or?
• Reduce the level of complexity
• Simplify and improve utility.

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Ink Blot Test

What part of cloud dont you understand ...
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VFR not recommended

• Legitimate - sometimes

• Over warning - cry wolf..

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PIREPs

• Where is the weather?
• Can I get there?
• In flight/on the ground.

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PIREP system - Improvement

• MORE
• Pireps
• Dissemination
• Feedback to NWS
• Fix the forecast.

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Training

• Hot stoves work- predictably
• The weather does not

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Training Using Scenarios

• The virtual world
• The real world
• Case studies.

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Simplify Weather Information

• Teach pilots to think like meteorologists?
• Teach meteorologists to think like pilots?

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ASFs Role

• 1000 free weather seminars
• 10,000 free videotapes in 1999
• The Web site
• Research.

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SIMPLE SAFE!
www.aopa.org/asf 1-800-USA-AOPA..