Adverse Weather Conditions (AWC)

The goal of this Adverse Weather Condition Training (AWC) is to increase the ability of pilots to recognize and avoid critical situations in thunderstomes and windshear conditions. The successful applicant should be thoroughly familiar with causing factors recognition and recovery procedures.

THEORETICAL KNOWLEDGE SUBJECTS

 Thunderstormes

• Hazards

• Formation

• Types

• Stages

• Microburst

• Shelf cloud

• Hail

• Lightning

• Severe Thunderstormes

• Tornados

Thunderstorm Avoidance

• Hazards

• Turbulence

• Distances

• Visual clues

• Airborne weather radar

• Rainfall gradient

• Radar echo shapes

• Hail

• CB overflights

• Below CBs

• Lightning

• Icing

• Procedures

Windshear 

• Definition

• Hazards

• Positive Shear

• Negative Shear

• Weather phenomena

• Downdrafts

• Microbursts

• CAT

• Low Level Jet

• Inversions

• Mountain waves

Windshear Recognition and Avoidance

• Aircraft limitations

• Visual clues

• Onboard systems

• Awareness

• Avoidance

• Monitoring

• Procedures

• Predictive windshear warning

• W/S at takeoff

• W’/S at approach

• Techniques

• Flight Crew 

• Dispatch