Safety Hot Spot
Safety Hot Spot: Summer Weather
With its warm weather and long days, summer is great for flying! It's the perfect time of year to search for the best $100 hamburger, or to just spend some quality time enjoying a hobby that winter may have interrupted.
Unfortunately, it's also the perfect time of year for thunderstorms, high density altitudes, and visibility-reducing haze. Check out this Safety Hot Spot for tips that'll help make it a summer to remember not regret.
Getting Started
Here's a review of what you need to know—and bring—before you go.
- Summer Weather Safety Checkup
Kneeboard format (PDF file — 8KB) | HTML format
Great Learning Tools
Articles and other online resources from AOPA and the AOPA Air Safety Foundation to increase your knowledge about summer weather.
Publications
- Safety Advisors:
- WeatherWise: Practical Tips and Tactical Tricks (PDF file — 603KB)
- Thunderstorms and ATC (PDF file — 4257KB)
- Fuel Awareness (PDF file — 240KB)
- Safety Brief:
- Terrain Avoidance Plan (PDF file — 175KB)
- AOPA Pilot and Flight Training articles:
Other Resources
- Online Courses
- Weather Wise: Ceilings and Visibility
- Weather Wise: Thunderstorms and ATC
- Say Intentions: When You Need ATC
- SkySpotter
- Find out how to use an ASF online course for safety seminar credit in the FAA WINGS program
- General Aviation Accident Data from the ASF Accident Database
Take a Checkride
Think you're ready? Take a quiz and test your summer weather knowledge.
Sporty's Safety Quiz
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Updated Tuesday, November 13, 2007 9:47 AM
