Weather effects on Aviation

Weather effects on Aviation

Introduction

This paper contains the analysis of weather conditions faced by aircrafts during flights. These weather conditions should be in favor of the aircraft in-flight; otherwise, the conditions become hazardous to the flight affecting its performance. The paper discusses the effective ways to identify the weather type, together with the ways of avoiding the hazards of weather at all possible levels (FAA, 2007).

Discussion

Since long, there has been an intimate relation between aviation and weather. With the advancement in technology over time, the aviation industry has improved with improved systems of air navigation, better aircrafts, and systemized programs of training the pilots. In spite of this, weather is the constant factor that affects the flights. It does not refer to the current weather condition, but also considers the weather conditions in the upcoming future (FAA, 2009).

Weathers Affecting the Flight

Among numerous weather types CB (clouds) micro burst, Windshear and Extreme turbulence are the most effective ones towards the aviation concerns. These weather conditions are prone to the safety concerns of people and the protection of the entire crew of the plane. A number of measures are required to be taken for avoiding these threats and securing the lives of numerous people.

CB (clouds) Micro Burst

These are the Cumulonimbus Clouds that create thunderstorms, which become severe hazard to aviation. These clouds include the hazards of severe icing, turbulence, and micro-bursts that generate gust fronts. These gust fronts produce severe level of turbulence (FAA, n.d.). Moreover, these clouds also generate lightning with high content of water and hail. Based on its level of severity in terms of weather conditions, it can never be taken lightly or underestimated at all. CB looks like a mountain of clouds as seen from inside of the aeroplane. These clouds create myriad of issues to the flights in which thunderstorm is the worst. It turns into severe form of hail that is not detected by the use of radars at the plane. Only CB's presence and other clues are available, but its exact presence is not known (FAA, 2012).

Its presence in CB clouds varies with respect to the wind and altitude in the atmosphere. Once the aircraft enters into these clouds, it is going to suffer severe threats to the lives of people and to the entire plane (FAA, 2012).

When a CB is downwind, it has greater level of hail. During this, moisture moves upwards completely, which gets frozen into hail. These threats can be avoided by plying the plane at the downwind side of the CB cloud, so that the upwind pressure can not affect the flight (FAA, 2012).

Wind-Shear

Wind shear is another major threat to the aircrafts in-flight. It is the change in the direction of wind or the speed of wind. Wind shear occurs in horizontal and vertical directions based on the directional change in wind or its speed. This change occurs abruptly that affects the ground speed or track. Not all the aircrafts are compatible with the problem of ...