AVIATION WEATHER FORUM

Bethesda, MarylandJuly 25 -26, 2000

GA is not like the airlines

GA aircraft/pilots are less weather tolerant

• 65 weather accidents - 54 Fatal

• 70% VFR into IMC (40 fatal acc.).

Need more information - Less data

•1-800-Can I Get There

Never try to teach a pig to sing.

• You won’t like the results

• It annoys the pig.

• Easier to train new pilots?

• Or?

• Reduce the level of complexity

• Simplify and improve utility.

Training attempts to compensate for poorly designed systems

What part of cloud don’t you understand ...

Ink Blot Test

VFR not recommended

• Legitimate - sometimes• Over warning - “cry wolf”..

PIREPs

• Where is the weather?

• Can I get there?

• In flight/on the ground.

PIREP system - Improvement

MORE

• Pireps

• Dissemination

• Feedback to NWS

• Fix the forecast.

Training

• Hot stoves work- predictably

• The weather does not

Training Using Scenarios

•The virtual world•The real world•Case studies.

•Teach pilots to think like meteorologists?•Teach meteorologists to think like pilots?

Simplify Weather Information

ASF’s Role

•1000+ free weather seminars•10,000 free videotapes in 1999•The Web site•Research.

SIMPLE = SAFE!

www.aopa.org/asf

1-800-USA-AOPA..