Lecture 9: Meteorology

MIT 16.687 Private Pilot Ground School, IAP 2019
Instructor: Philip Greenspun, Tina Srivastava
View the complete course: https://ocw.mit.edu/16-687IAP19
YouTube Playlist:    • MIT 16.687 Private Pilot Ground School, IA...  

This lecture covered the basic weather theory, weather patterns, and related hazards.

License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA
More information at https://ocw.mit.edu/terms
More courses at https://ocw.mit.edu

0:00 Introduction
0:17 Outline
0:46 VFR Weather Minimums
6:36 Add Water and Spin
14:16 Local Wind Patterns
14:41 Atmospheric Stability
22:09 Temperature Inversions
22:25 Frost
23:01 Cloud Collection
24:09 Low Clouds
24:54 Middle Clouds
30:00 Airmasses
30:18 Fronts
31:11 Cold Front
31:36 Warm Front
32:09 Occluded Front
34:45 Thunderstorm Life Cycle
35:40 Thunderstorms Hazards
37:16 Microbursts
40:11 Low level turbulence
40:29 Wake Turbulence
44:36 Structural Icing
45:02 Recognition: Flight Characteristics
48:01 Requirements for Icing Formation
48:28 Avoiding Icing Encounters
50:34 Response to Icing
51:37 How do transportation airplanes handle this?