AVIATION WEATHER FORUM
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AVIATION WEATHER FORUM
Bethesda, MarylandJuly 25 -26, 2000
GA is not like the airlines
GA aircraft/pilots are less weather tolerant
• 65 weather accidents - 54 Fatal
• 70% VFR into IMC (40 fatal acc.).
Need more information - Less data
•1-800-Can I Get There
Never try to teach a pig to sing.
• You won’t like the results
• It annoys the pig.
• Easier to train new pilots?
• Or?
• Reduce the level of complexity
• Simplify and improve utility.
Training attempts to compensate for poorly designed systems
What part of cloud don’t you understand ...
Ink Blot Test
VFR not recommended
• Legitimate - sometimes• Over warning - “cry wolf”..
PIREPs
• Where is the weather?
• Can I get there?
• In flight/on the ground.
PIREP system - Improvement
MORE
• Pireps
• Dissemination
• Feedback to NWS
• Fix the forecast.
Training
• Hot stoves work- predictably
• The weather does not
Training Using Scenarios
•The virtual world•The real world•Case studies.
•Teach pilots to think like meteorologists?•Teach meteorologists to think like pilots?
Simplify Weather Information
ASF’s Role
•1000+ free weather seminars•10,000 free videotapes in 1999•The Web site•Research.
SIMPLE = SAFE!
www.aopa.org/asf
1-800-USA-AOPA..