CHAPTER 6
Chapter 6
6.1 Heckamaclopter Emergency Medical Services Tool
- Helicopter Emergency Medical Services Tool
- Provides wx info for short distance, low altitude flights like the ones we make
- Includes:
–Ceiling
–Vis
–Flight category
–winds
–Relative humidity
–Temp
–Icing satellite
–Radar
–AIRMETs SIGMETs
–METAR
–TAF
–PIREP
–NWS hazards
–Center Weather Advisories
Chapter 6
6.2 Flight Path Tool
Flight Path Tool
- Flight Path Tool is a comprehensive, interactive, geographical display that brings together the weather products available on the AWC’s Web site
- Included in this one stop shop are
- –Icing forecasts at 1-hour intervals from the surface through flight level (FL) 450 (probability, severity, and Supercooled Large Drops (SLB)).
- –Turbulence forecasts at 1-hour intervals at altitudes from 10,000 ft mean sea level (MSL) to FL 450.
- –Winds, relative humidity, temperature, and forecasts at 1-hour intervals from the surface through FL450.
- –METARs and graphical depictions of flight categories.
- –TAFs.
- –AIRMETs and G-AIRMETs.
- –SIGMETs and the graphical representation of the area covered by SIGMETs (includes Convective SIGMETs).
- –PIREPs and the graphical representation of PIREPs
- Runs as a stand alone Java Script you have to download
Review
- METAR
- –How to read them
- –Winds true and in knots
- –Ceilings and how to convert them to MSL
- –Temp group
- –Codes for limiting vis phenom
- TAF
- –How to read them
- –Valid times
- Area forecast
- –How to read them and convert to wx intelligence
- Winds aloft
- –Decode wind direction/speed
- –Why are some codes missing
- PIREP
- –Decode
- AIRMET
- –Know the 3 kinds and what/who they pertain to
- SIGMET
- –Know what they cover
- –Know who they pertain to
- CIP/FIP
- –What info they provide
- –What levels are available
Review
- Skew-T
- –What the lines are
- –How to read where the clouds will form
- Hazardous attitudes
- –Know all the definitions and antidotes for each
- Significant Wx Progs
- –Know what altitudes they cover and time frames
- –What information is on them
- HIWAS
- –What it is, what information does it cover
- Surface Analysis
- –What it is, what information does it cover
- CVA
- –What it is, what information does it cover
- –What do the colors mean
- G-AIRMET
- –Be familiar with the whole suite of panels and the symbology
- Radar
- –What it is, what information does it cover
- Satellite
- –Know the different types of satellite products