Nicely done guys. This thread is the Usenet we all enjoy.

A Chinook is the classic demonstration of lapse rate in action. You can
even see it on the satellite feeds.

From a pilots perspective there are only three kinds of weather.
Getting better
Getting worse
Staying the same
All of our studying and experience are drawn on to make this judgment, and I
think it is true to say that you can't have too much weather knowledge.
Ultimately weather and running out of fuel seem to be the biggest cause of
aviation fatalities.

The internet is a wonderful resource for students of life as there is a huge
amount of very good material available for free and the access to aviation
weather maps and data lets us practice our skills by constantly watching the
sky and asking yourself, if you were flying today
is it getting better or worse?
and where is the hidden weather killer hiding?

I make it a point to check the aviation weather daily and find that my
forecasts are usually as good as the very good TV weather (CFCN) I also
find this practice useful for forecasting powder snow and use my knowledge
of lapse rates and winds aloft to estimate whether it is likely to be heavy
or light and its effect on the avalanche hazard or if the high chairlift
will be closed for wind..

Weather newsgroup sci.gen.meteorology Most of the guys on
this group know way more than me, but then that's true here too.

The following is a repost, my appologies to the usenet purists.

When the local FSS were closed NavCan recognized that the briefers in the
centers may lack the local knowledge that the local FSS had provided. A
project to gather this local knowledge for briefer training lead to the
production of weather manuals for each of the weather regions. These
manuals are available on their website. The general weather chapter seems
to be common to each manual and is as good as any of the pilot weather books
I have read, with the possible exception of the TC Air Command Weather
Manual CFACM 2-700 ( TC. TP9352E)

http://www.navcanada.ca/NavCanada.as...Definition Fi
les\Publications\LAK\default.xml

My favorite weather source is

http://www.flightplanning.navcanada....gue=anglais&No
Session=NS_Inconnu&Page=rb&TypeDoc=html

Blue skies to all





"Icebound" wrote in message
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"Michael" wrote in message
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This isn't a good situation, but I have to say that in power flying
that's basically the way it is - and that goes double for instrument
flying.
...more relevant observations snipped....
And lest you think that it's somehow different for gliders, every one
of those glider pilots who has become pretty good at knowing what the
weather is doing has stories of guessing wrong and making an
off-airport landing or escaping one only by the skin of one's teeth.

I had been around the periphery of aviation for many years, but have only
had my very first peeks "inside" since mid-2004.

What you have said mirrors that meager experience perfectly. It surprised
me a little...maybe more than a little.



and many previous posters