Private Pilot - Section 5 - Lesson #12: METARs & TAFs

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Private Pilot - Section 5 - Lesson #12:

In this free online ground school lesson for private pilot we cover everything a student pilot needs to know about both METAR and TAF reports including a deep dive of how to decipher these reports and what each item in the reports mean... with examples!

 

Links mentioned in the episode:

 

Weather.gov METAR guide: https://www.weather.gov/media/wrh/mesowest/metar_decode_key.pdf 

METAR & TAF Video: How to Read METAR and TAF - For Student Pilots - YouTube 

 

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