The Air Pilot's WEATHER GUIDE

This is a book for all who fly, either in powered aircraft, sail planes or hang gliders, so that they can appreciate the weather hazards of the air. It is written in everyday language, combining basic theory with practical information in a style which can easily be comprehended.  

No do-it-yourself forecast is ever better than one by a meteorologist, who has professional skill and access to information from all over the world. However, personal briefings are less likely these days than weather charts and general forecasts sent by facsimile machines direct to airfields. Therefore it is important that aviators can add their own local detail and cope with emergency weather deteriorations.

This book shows how to acquire the necessary weather wisdom. Illustrated throughout with 48 diagrams, 34 black and white and 14 colour photographs.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR 

Ingrid Holford was amongst the first women graduates who were recruited as weather forecasters during the Second World War. She was a WAAF Officer from 1942-46, forecasting and briefing air crew in RAF Training Command. Since the war, Ingrid has written many articles about the weather in various journals, as well as four other books on the subject. She has contributed on weather topics to BBC radio programmes, and for three years was standby forecaster with Southern Television, before its demise.