Avsoft’s Thunderstorm Avoidance online aviation course explores important definitions, limitations, components, and procedures related to this important aviation general subject.
Learning objectives include:
- Thunderstorm formation
- Anatomy of a thunderstorm
- Life cycle of a thunderstorm
- Types of thunderstorms
- Associated weather phenomena including gust fronts, roll clouds, gustnados, wall clouds, and tornadoes
- Associated hazards including microbursts, wind shear, turbulence, precipitation, icing, and lightning strikes
- Thunderstorm avoidance techniques including using airborne weather radar
- Thunderstorm penetration techniques
Each module concludes with a test, and when all the modular tests are successfully completed, a certificate of completion is generated.
Customers also have the option of creating a final exam.