Student Learning Outcomes

• Appraise cause and effect of evaporation, saturation, condensation, and precipitation on atmosphere's water cycle.
• Students will be able to decipher Federal Aviation Administration hourly airport weather observations (METAR) and terminal aerodrome forecasts (TAF).
• Correlate and summarize the aviation weather conditions and forecast for a specific location on a particular day using U.S. Low-Level Significant Weather Prognostic Chart, High-Level Significant Weather Prognostic Chart, and the Radar Summary Chart.
• Encode and decode hourly surface weather observations; and decode pilot reports, terminal forecasts, area forecasts, winds aloft forecasts, and meteorological advisories.
• Relate differences in true altitude, actual altitude, indicated altitude, and pressure altitude.
• Identify layers of earth's atmosphere and determine height and at least one characteristic of each layer.