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In all, the AC contains 21 pages of extremely useful information for new and tenured pilots alike. The document provides several checklists for pilots to ensure their self-weather briefings are complete and thorough.
There is no one-size-fits-all approach to weather-related self-briefings. If you are a CFI, the use of various scenarios related to changing weather conditions can help ensure that your students truly understand the various weather-related concepts at the correlative level, and that they have the self-briefing skills necessary to make a competent go/no-go decision.
The AC expounds on this:
“Developing self-briefing skills helps to identify areas that require closer investigation.
The more doubtful the
weather, the more information you need to obtain about the route, runway conditions, and destination and alternate airports.”
If you haven’t had the opportunity to read this important advisory circular, you can find it online at
www.faa.gov. And the new online Flight Service course called “Conducting Preflight Self-Briefings for Student and VFR Pilots” is available at
FAAsafety.gov. But don’t be fooled by the title; any pilot can get something out of both the advisory circular and the short online course, not just students and VFR Pilots.
The short course is divided into seven sections, and we are informed of its key purpose in the intro section: “This course was developed by Flight Service and is designed to provide the student, and visual flight rules (VFR) pilot, guidance on how to conduct a regulatory compliant preflight self-briefing using automated weather resources.”
Admittedly, at times I get a little geeked-out on weather and all of the amazing weather tools that we have at our disposal. While I certainly don’t expect most pilots to be as engrossed with weather as I may be, this new AC and short online course can surely offer something for just about everyone.
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