Teacherjh wrote:


But a course in weather flying, be it pre- or
post-PPL, would still be something useful, I think.


Yes, you should have gotten one along with your PPL training. That said,
you should never stop learning.

More more more!

For whatever reason, I always want to learn more about weather. Even after
the additional education that came with my instrument rating, I still want
more.

There's just something about the dynamics of the atmosphere, and how these
impact us, that's very interesting to me. I like looking at the various
weather "products" available to us, and I'm grateful to have been taught to
use them. But they're like snapshots into a dynamic reality that I want to
understand.

For example, I was looking at the various charts on a day before a day when
wind was predicted. I even read the notes available at places like:

http://iwin.nws.noaa.gov/iwin/ny/discussion.html

but I still couldn't quite grasp how they knew wind was coming tomorrow.
They spoke of airmass movements and exit regions and such and it was
*almost* understandable to me.

I'm actually looking around for meteorology courses in this area, but I'd
still like something with an aviator's bias.

- Andrew