Learning Weight and balance, and weather info.

[no1pilot2000]

I am having a little difficulty understanding the METAR and TAF coded forcasts. I am also finding it difficult to understand some of the weight and balance concepts. Is there a CD or DVD that can help me better understand these concepts?

 

[minitour]

Check out the FAA's Weight and Balance Handbook.

Good stuff.

IMHO

-mini

 

[timeoff]

It is free on the FAA's site:

W&B Handbook (big file, 16 megs)
http://www.faa.gov/library/manuals/aircraft/media/FAA-S-8083-1.pdf

Aviation Weather Services (click the link for sec 2 on METARs)
http://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/avs/offices/afs/afs400/awsac/

More good stuff here
http://www.faa.gov/library/manuals/aviation/

 

[epic!]

what i did when learning the such was go to www.aviationweather.com there you can type in your local airports METAR and get a translated version of the code.

 

[Amish RakeFight]

I am having a little difficulty understanding the METAR and TAF coded forcasts. I am also finding it difficult to understand some of the weight and balance concepts. Is there a CD or DVD that can help me better understand these concepts?

Chapter 7 in the AIM will give you guidance in decoding METAR's and TAF's.

Post some more specific questions about weather reports and W&B concepts. Perhaps we can offer more concise and intuitive answers. Sometimes those books keep their explanations too short to produce any meaningful correlation or understanding.

 

[Amish RakeFight]

If you have DUATS (it's free) you can request various weather reports in both FAA code and plain language. Once you have both, you can compare them side by side and see how each code is converted into meaningful data.

I think the other poster meant to give this link:

www.aviationweather.gov (it's .gov not .com)

This site also has the ability to provide both types of translations.

 

[Amish RakeFight]

Actually I realize that there is a .com site too.