Ceiling Weather Wind Shear 
Air Facts
MAY 28, 2025
That evening, I checked the weather for the next leg. An approaching system threatened to bring widespread low ceilings, embedded thunderstorms, and wind shear across much of the southern U.S. Sure enough, Monday brought a wall of weather that confirmed my decision. If I dont like the weather, I dont go.
Pilot Institute
MARCH 6, 2025
AGL is important for drone pilots as the regular ceiling for drone flight is defined as 400 feet AGL. Rather, it is affected by many factors, such as weather conditions and the presence of obstacles. Information transmitted via ATIS can include weather information, NOTAMs, available approaches, or active runaways.
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Vintage Aviation News
FEBRUARY 12, 2025
National Museum of the US Navy) As night fell over the Jersey shore, the USS Akron cut a path through thick fog and severe weather, unknowingly flying into a violent stormfront. In the midst of the storm, the weakened ring’s structure failed as the result of a wind shear, and the upper vertical stabilizer was torn from the airship.
Flying Magazine
JUNE 24, 2025
Yes, controllers have many other ancillary roles that include helping circumnavigate adverse weather, but it’s not their priority to provide a pilot with weather guidance. Nevertheless, controllers do make an attempt to assist pilots around weather when workload permits. This engenders delays in the NAS.
iPad Pilot News
FEBRUARY 4, 2025
SkewTLogPro releases version 3.0upgrade your weather briefing today iPad Pilot News It seems like there are two types of pilots: those who have never heard of Skew-T log (p) charts and true believers who know they are the source of all truth and knowledge about weather. Is there wind shear at a certain altitude?
Learn to Fly
APRIL 11, 2024
The saying “ in like a lion out like a lamb ” is most often used for March, but April can also be a crazy weather month. Once the decision is made to divert, the next decision is to return to the departure, continue to the alternate (which was determined as part of flight planning), or pick a new destination to get out of the weather.
Plane and Pilot
JANUARY 8, 2025
My time studying the weather proved itself well spent as the flight to Portland was uneventful and a beautiful sight. Dawn had broken bright and clear, and while icing , ceiling, and visibility had been my preoccupationrightfully so, given our arrival into Portlandthe actual threat of the day was wind.
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