Climatology for Airline Pilots

Climatology for Airline Pilots is a valuable reference book, for today's modern airline pilot, concentrating on the increasingly important field of climatology. The author, a former RAF instructor pilot, addresses this area by examining the world's many diverse climatic anomalies and their attributes such as temperature, high-level winds, air masses with extreme characteristics, solar radiation, and severe precipitation. The climate of each major region of the globe is presented with a view to showing the key principles to airline pilots who may be flying to new and unfamiliar regions.

As aircraft become more sophisticated, they can fly higher, travel greater distances, and carry more advanced equipment that relay larger quantities of information to pilots. Greater numbers of flights are becoming non-stop and new long-distance routes are being created to formerly inaccessible regions. As a result, pilots are facing new and greater challenges from radical and unfamiliar climatic variations. This text addresses these new emerging problems in ways earlier books have failed to do. Traditionally, other texts have focused on statistics dealing with the average atmospheric state within a singel region such as North America or Europe. This text focuses on a world view, which is a growing concern of modern-day long-distance aviators.

This book will interest any airline pilot, Air Transport Pilot instructor pilot, airline dispatcher, or ATPL student.