Syllabus for Examination for Issue of Student Pilot’s Licence - Air Meteorology (DGCA)

 Aviation Meteorology

• Elementary knowledge of atmosphere and its properties
•  Basic knowledge of temperature, pressure and its density and their relationship
•  I) Elementary knowledge of relationship between pressure & wind
•  II) Elementary knowledge of
• a) variation of wind with height
• b) see breeze and land breeze
•  Elementary knowledge of different types of clouds and precipitation
•  Basic understanding of hazards associated with certain types of clouds
•  Elementary knowledge of the terms – Visibility, Fog, Mist and Haze
•  Elementary knowledge of variation of pressure with height, and the Q codes – QNH, QFE and QNE, etc.
•  Basic understanding of METAR, SPECI and aerodrome warnings and their importance in aviation
•  Elementary knowledge of the uses of Anemometer, Aneroid Barometer, Wind Stock etc.

Syllabus for Examination for Issue of Commercial Pilot’s Licence - Aviation Meteorology (DGCA)

THE SYLLABUS OF AVIATION METEOROLOGY IS AS FOLLOWS :

1.1 The Atmosphere

a) Composition, extent, vertical division

b) Temperature

- vertical distribution of temperature

- transfer of heat: solar and terrestrial radiation, conduction, convection, advection and turbulence

- lapse rate, stability and instability

- development of inversions, types of inversions

- temperature near the earth’s surface, surface effects, diurnal

- variation, effect of clouds, effect of wind

c) Atmospheric pressure

- barometric pressure, isobars

- pressure variation with height, contours (isohypses)

- reduction of pressure to mean sea level, QFF

- surface low/upper-air low, surface high/upper-air high-precipitation

d) Atmospheric density : interrelationship of pressure, temperature and density