MIT 16.687 Private Pilot Ground School, IAP 2019 - Lecture 9: Meteorology

MIT 16.687 Private Pilot Ground School, IAP 2019 Instructor: Philip Greenspun, Tina Srivastava View the complete course: https://ocw.mit.edu/16-687IAP19 YouTube Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUl4u3cNGP63cUdAG3v311Vl72ozOiK25 This lecture covered the basic weather theory, weather patterns, and related hazards. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA More information at https://ocw.mit.edu/terms More courses at https://ocw.mit.edu 0:00 Introduction 0:17 Outline 0:46 VFR Weather Minimums 6:36 Add Water and Spin 14:16 Local Wind Patterns 14:41 Atmospheric Stability 22:09 Temperature Inversions 22:25 Frost 23:01 Cloud Collection 24:09 Low Clouds 24:54 Middle Clouds 30:00 Airmasses 30:18 Fronts 31:11 Cold Front 31:36 Warm Front 32:09 Occluded Front 34:45 Thunderstorm Life Cycle 35:40 Thunderstorms Hazards 37:16 Microbursts 40:11 Low level turbulence 40:29 Wake Turbulence 44:36 Structural Icing 45:02 Recognition: Flight Characteristics 48:01 Requirements for Icing Formation 48:28 Avoiding Icing Encounters 50:34 Response to Icing 51:37 How do transportation airplanes handle this?