Objective: Proficiency in getting and understanding a weather briefing, including the parts of it, as well as understanding the weather products available from the FSS (and off the web)

Content: Weather briefing parts: Synopsis, Adverse conditions, Current weather, Enroute forecast, Destination, Winds aloft, Notams; PRODUCTS: Radar and satellite images, Prog charts, surface analysis chart, area forecast (FA), Severe weather outlook chart, forecast winds and temperatures aloft (FD), Weather depiction chart, Constant-pressure chart

Equipment:
Telephone with speaker. Sample charts from the Jeppesen guide or printed out from the web.

Schedule:
Ground lesson: 45 minutes
Student practice: 10 minutes

Instructor:
Preflight: Explain the elements of a briefing and demonstrate getting a briefing on a speakerphone. Have the student do the same. Go over the various charts, their meanings and usefulness, and their symbols.

Student:
Preflight: Attend to explanation, ask and answer questions
Practice: Get a weather briefing and write it down; explain it to the instructor, get current charts from off the web (duat.com, http://adds.aviationweather.noaa.gov/) and explain their meaning in practical terms.

Completion Standards:
Student can get and interpret appropriate weather data, can make a go/no-go decision based on this data.