Atmosphere
- Composition and structure
- Vertical structure
Temperature, pressure and density
- Sun and Earth's radiation (solar and terrestrial radiation), temperature
- Daily temperature variation
- Adiabatic process
- Vertical temperature gradient
- Stability and instability
- Changes in pressure, density and temperature with height
Altimetry
- Operational aspects of pressure setting
- Barometric altitude, density altitude
- The height, altitude, flight level
- ICAO standard atmosphere
- QNH, QFE, standard pressure
- Transition altitude, layer and level
Humidity and precipitation
- Water vapor in the atmosphere
- Water vapor pressure
- Dew point and relative humidity
- Condensation and evaporation
- Collisions
Pressure and wind
- Barometric pressure isobar
- Movements in the atmosphere, the pressure gradient
- Vertical and horizontal motion, convergence, divergence
- Surface and geostrophic wind
- The relationship between isobars and wind, Buys Ballot's Law
- Turbulence and gustiness
- Local winds, hair dryer, land and sea breezes
Production cloudiness
- Cooling by advection, radiation and adiabatic expansion
- Cloud types
- Convective clouds
- Orographic clouds
- Layered and cumulus clouds
- Flying conditions in each cloud
Fog, mist and haze
- Radiation, advection, frontal, freezing fog
- Creation and dissolution of fog
- Reduced visibility due to smog, snow, smoke, dust and sand
- Assess the likelihood of reduced visibility
- Risks in flight due to low visibility, horizontal and vertical
Air masses
- Factors affecting the properties of air masses and their description
- Classification of airmasses, region of origin
- Airmasses during their movement
- Development of low and high pressure
- Weather associated with pressure systems
Queues
- Boundaries between airmasses
- Warm front, associated clouds and weather
- Weather in the warm sector
- The cold front, associated clouds and weather
- Occlusion, frontal clouds and weather
- A stationary front, associated clouds and weather
Ice accretion
- Conditions conducive to ice formation
- The effect of frost, ice crystals, granular ice, clear ice (Toothfish)
- Effects of icing on aircraft performance
- Safety measures and avoidance of icing conditions
Storms
- Formation - airmass, frontal, orographic
- The conditions necessary for the formation of thunderstorms
- Development process
- Danger to aircraft,
Flight over mountainous areas
- Risk
- The influence of terrain on atmospheric processes
- Mountain waves, windshear, turbulence, vertical movement, rotor effects, valley winds
Climatology
- General circulation in the troposphere over Europe in different seasons
- Local weather and winds seasons
Meteorological Organization
- Airport meteorological office
- Aeronautical meteorological station
- Forecasting service
- Meteorological services at airports
- The availability of periodic weather forecasts
Weather analysis and forecast meteorological information for flight planning
- Weather maps, symbols, signs
- Significant weather maps
- Messages, reports and forecasts for departure, en route, destination and alternate
- Interpretation of coded information METAR, TAF, GAFOR
- Meteorological broadcasts for aviation - VOLMET, ATIS and SIGMET
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- Composition and structure
- Vertical structure
Temperature, pressure and density
- Sun and Earth's radiation (solar and terrestrial radiation), temperature
- Daily temperature variation
- Adiabatic process
- Vertical temperature gradient
- Stability and instability
- Changes in pressure, density and temperature with height
Altimetry
- Operational aspects of pressure setting
- Barometric altitude, density altitude
- The height, altitude, flight level
- ICAO standard atmosphere
- QNH, QFE, standard pressure
- Transition altitude, layer and level
Humidity and precipitation
- Water vapor in the atmosphere
- Water vapor pressure
- Dew point and relative humidity
- Condensation and evaporation
- Collisions
Pressure and wind
- Barometric pressure isobar
- Movements in the atmosphere, the pressure gradient
- Vertical and horizontal motion, convergence, divergence
- Surface and geostrophic wind
- The relationship between isobars and wind, Buys Ballot's Law
- Turbulence and gustiness
- Local winds, hair dryer, land and sea breezes
Production cloudiness
- Cooling by advection, radiation and adiabatic expansion
- Cloud types
- Convective clouds
- Orographic clouds
- Layered and cumulus clouds
- Flying conditions in each cloud
Fog, mist and haze
- Radiation, advection, frontal, freezing fog
- Creation and dissolution of fog
- Reduced visibility due to smog, snow, smoke, dust and sand
- Assess the likelihood of reduced visibility
- Risks in flight due to low visibility, horizontal and vertical
Air masses
- Factors affecting the properties of air masses and their description
- Classification of airmasses, region of origin
- Airmasses during their movement
- Development of low and high pressure
- Weather associated with pressure systems
Queues
- Boundaries between airmasses
- Warm front, associated clouds and weather
- Weather in the warm sector
- The cold front, associated clouds and weather
- Occlusion, frontal clouds and weather
- A stationary front, associated clouds and weather
Ice accretion
- Conditions conducive to ice formation
- The effect of frost, ice crystals, granular ice, clear ice (Toothfish)
- Effects of icing on aircraft performance
- Safety measures and avoidance of icing conditions
Storms
- Formation - airmass, frontal, orographic
- The conditions necessary for the formation of thunderstorms
- Development process
- Danger to aircraft,
Flight over mountainous areas
- Risk
- The influence of terrain on atmospheric processes
- Mountain waves, windshear, turbulence, vertical movement, rotor effects, valley winds
Climatology
- General circulation in the troposphere over Europe in different seasons
- Local weather and winds seasons
Meteorological Organization
- Airport meteorological office
- Aeronautical meteorological station
- Forecasting service
- Meteorological services at airports
- The availability of periodic weather forecasts
Weather analysis and forecast meteorological information for flight planning
- Weather maps, symbols, signs
- Significant weather maps
- Messages, reports and forecasts for departure, en route, destination and alternate
- Interpretation of coded information METAR, TAF, GAFOR
- Meteorological broadcasts for aviation - VOLMET, ATIS and SIGMET
PoslechFonetický přepis