Meteorology and Flight: A Pilot's Guide to Weather (Flying and Gliding) - Softcover

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The book describes the influence of high-level jet streams on the development of depressions, as well as detailing thermals, lee-waves and up-and-down currents which are important to pilots of sail-planes, microlights, hang gliders and balloons. Diagrams show the movement of air at various heights and also trace the development of clouds, from fair weather cumulus to giant cumulonimbus and the associated hazards of lightning, hail, downbursts and outflows.

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