Flight Plan Turbulence Wind Shear 
Pilot Institute
MARCH 6, 2025
Pilots are required to check for NOTAMs along their relevant routes or locations before the start of a flight. NOTAMs are very important in that they can provide information that can cause a pilot to change their flight plans, such as Temporary Flight Restrictions (TFRs) or an airport that has become temporarily unavailable.
Pilot Institute
JULY 11, 2025
Identifying occluded fronts on charts is important for flight planning and safety. Pilots should anticipate heavy rain, storms, icing, and turbulence with occluded fronts. Turbulence and Wind Changes Occluded fronts often bring strong winds and sudden wind shifts. What Is a Weather Front?
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Pilot Institute
MAY 26, 2025
Welcome to the world of Clear Air Turbulence (CAT). How can you stay safe during high-altitude flights? Lets take a closer look at clear air turbulence, so you can anticipate where they might show up, and learn how to manage the risks involved. Upon a CAT encounter, configure to turbulence penetration speed and maintain control.
Pilot Institute
JULY 4, 2025
Moisture, instability, lift, and wind shear are needed to form and sustain a squall line. Squall lines can bring strong turbulence, heavy rain, hail, lightning, and tornadoes. Weather radars and reports can help you plan ahead to avoid squall lines. Wind shear is the change in wind speed or direction with height.
Learn to Fly
APRIL 11, 2024
While aviation training tends to focus on the go/no-go decision, equally critical are the continue/divert decisions that happen quite literally throughout the flight. If you’re IFR, can you fly through them without risk of icing, severe turbulence, or storm downdrafts? This tends to result in extreme conditions.
Pilot Institute
OCTOBER 17, 2024
These weather alerts each have their own role: AIRMETs warn about moderate conditions like turbulence, icing, and limited visibility, which can affect smaller or less equipped aircraft. SIGMETs alert pilots to more severe weather events like thunderstorms, volcanic ash, or strong turbulence that could pose serious risks to any flight.
Air
MAY 21, 2025
Wind Shear: The Abrupt Shift Wind shear refers to any abrupt divergence in wind characteristics be it speed, direction, or both that unfolds over a minimal distance. It is a particularly insidious phenomenon that can be a prime cause of turbulence. And it’s unique in Europe!
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