How Do You Check Weather For Flight Planning?
After taking off in your airplane on a weekend trip, you arrive at your destination and realize thunderstorms surround the area, prohibiting you from landing. This is the point you wish you had checked the weather so you would have known to fly somewhere else. Following these steps, you will learn to check the weather when planning a flight. Watch local TV news stations for the weather forecast in your area. Websites such as weather.com can also be beneficial for obtaining the general weather conditions along your route of flight. Log on to NOAA’s Aviation Weather Center website for current and forecast weather relating to aviation. Check for current AIRMETs and SIGMETSs. On the NOAA site, you can get both a textual and graphical description of icing, turbulence, IFR, convective storms and volcanic ash. Look at the Low Level 4 Panel Prog charts to see predicted locations of fronts, pressure areas and precipitations. The top panels will show areas of predicted turbulence and IFR weather
