With maps, photos and illuminating text, Tom Horne explains what to expect,
how to prepare for, and how to enjoy the best and the worst of America's flying
weather. Readers can learn what to expect before embarking on a new trip.
Despite quantum leaps in cockpit technology, weather radar and forecasting
techniques, flying often boils down to "someone sitting in a cramped cockpit
somewhere, trying for all he's worth to figure out what meaning those clouds up
ahead have for him." An understanding of how larger climatic forces affect each
region's specific patterns can give that lone pilot the edge, and this edge is
what Flying America's Weather is
all about.
This illuminating book takes us on a pilot's tour of our nation's weather,
from the brilliant blue of the Hawaiian Islands to the black and gray monster
that is the Nor'Easter - and everything in between. It shows a grand and diverse
country, dominated regionally by grand, diverse, and understandable patterns of
weather. Flying America's Weather combines
decades of climate research with hands-on experience, an awareness of larger
weather forces at work on local geography, and critical examples of how weather
contributes to aviation accidents. It focuses on what weather we can expect from
the areas we fly in, yet provides a deep understanding of why it's there. In
doing so, Flying America's Weather becomes
an indispensable guide for all pilots, wherever they fly.
Soft Cover, 329 pages, indexed and illustrated (includes full color weather images).
$49.95
