<p> November 2006</p><p>TABLE OF CONTENTS</p><p>PAGE</p><p>LESSON PLAN</p><p>SECTION I. ADMINISTRATIVE DATA 2</p><p>SECTION II. INTRODUCTION 4 </p><p>TERMINAL LEARNING OBJECTIVE 4</p><p>SECTION III. PRESENTATION 4</p><p>A. ENABLING LEARNING OBJECTIVE 1 4</p><p>B. ENABLING LEARNING OBJECTIVE 2 12</p><p>C. ENABLING LEARNING OBJECTIVE 3 15</p><p>SECTION IV. SUMMARY </p><p>SECTION V. STUDENT EVALUATION </p><p>APPENDIXES</p><p>A TRAINING AIDS INDEX A-1</p><p>B TEST AND TEST SOLUTIONS B-1</p><p>C PRACTICAL EXERCISES AND SOLUTIONS C-1</p><p>D STUDENT HANDOUT D-1</p><p>This LP supersedes all previous versions.</p><p>1 November 2006</p><p>SECTION I. ADMINISTRATIVE DATA</p><p>1. TASKS TAUGHT OR SUPPORTED:</p><p>TASK NUMBER TASK TITLE</p><p>03-1402-00-1001 Plan a VFR Flight 03-1402-00-1002 Plan an IFR Flight</p><p>2. TASK(S) REINFORCED:</p><p>TASK NUMBER TASK TITLE</p><p>3. ACADEMIC HOURS: PEACETIME MOBILIZATION HOURS/TYPE HOURS/TYPE 1.5/CO 1.5/CO 0.5/PE2 0.5/PE2 TEST 1.0 0.5 TEST REVIEW 1.0 1.0 TOTAL HOURS </p><p>4. LIST THE LESSON NUMBER IN WHICH THE TERMINAL LEARNING OBJECTIVE IS TESTED AND THE TEST RESULTS ARE REVIEWED:</p><p>HOURS LESSON NUMBER TESTING: 1.0 EAO4 REVIEW OF TEST RESULT: 1.0</p><p>5. PREREQUISITE LESSONS:</p><p>LESSON NUMBER LESSON TITLE</p><p>N/A N/A</p><p>6. CLEARANCE AND ACCESS: Unclassified; foreign students may attend this class.</p><p>7. REFERENCES:</p><p>ADDITIONAL NUMBER TITLE PAGES INFORMATION</p><p>FM 1-230 Meteorology for Army Aviators i thru N/A Index</p><p>8. STUDENT STUDY ASSIGNMENTS: None.</p><p>9. INSTRUCTOR REQUIREMENTS: One primary instructor.</p><p>10. ADDITIONAL SUPPORT PERSONNEL REQUIREMENTS: None.</p><p>11. EQUIPMENT REQUIRED FOR THE INSTRUCTION: One LCD projector, one screen, one computer.</p><p>2 12. MATERIALS REQUIRED FOR THE INSTRUCTION:</p><p>INSTRUCTOR MATERIALS: Lesson Plan</p><p>STUDENT MATERIALS: Student Handout</p><p>13. CLASSROOM, TRAINING AREA, AND/OR RANGE REQUIREMENTS: One 40 person standard classroom.</p><p>14. AMMUNITION REQUIREMENTS: None.</p><p>15. INSTRUCTIONAL GUIDANCE: None.</p><p>16. LESSON PLAN WRITTEN BY:</p><p>NAME RANK POSITION DATE</p><p>______PATRICK D. CUNNINGHAM CIV ACADEMIC INSTRUCTOR NOV 06</p><p>17. LESSON PLAN REVIEWED BY:</p><p>NAME RANK POSITION DATE</p><p>______STEPHEN G. CROUCH CIV DIRECTOR OF ACADEMICS NOV 06</p><p>18. PROPONENT RESIDENT LESSON PLAN APPROVAL:</p><p>NAME RANK POSITION DATE</p><p>______DONALD R. ROBERTS CIV COR NOV 06</p><p>19. BRANCH SAFETY OFFICER APPROVAL: N/A.</p><p>ANNUAL REVIEW</p><p>______PRINTED NAME RANK POSITION DATE REVIEWED</p><p>______PRINTED NAME RANK POSITION DATE REVIEWED</p><p>______PRINTED NAME RANK POSITION DATE REVIEWED</p><p>______PRINTED NAME RANK POSITION DATE REVIEWED</p><p>______PRINTED NAME RANK POSITION DATE REVIEWED</p><p>3 SECTION II. INTRODUCTION</p><p>Method of Instruction: CO. Instructor to student ratio is: 1:40.</p><p>Time of Instruction: </p><p>MOTIVATOR: Use it, paraphrase it, or develop one of your own. Ensure the motivator gains attention, states the need for the training, and explains the Terminal Learning Objective (TLO).</p><p>“Weather has an effect on Army aviation operations on a daily basis. In order to properly employ his/her aircraft, the aviator must understand weather.”</p><p>NOTE: Inform the students of the following Terminal Learning Objective requirements.</p><p>NOTE: Read, or have one of the students read, the TLO requirements.</p><p>TERMINAL LEARNING OBJECTIVE (TLO): At the completion of this lesson, the student will:</p><p>ACTION: Plan a flight mission IFR or VFR in accordance with weather conditions stated in FM 1-230 and AR 95-1.</p><p>CONDITION: In a classroom environment.</p><p>STANDARD: IAW FM 1-230.</p><p>SAFETY REQUIREMENTS: None.</p><p>RISK ASSESSMENT LEVEL: Low.</p><p>ENVIRONMENTAL CONSIDERATIONS: None.</p><p>NOTE: Use it, paraphrase it, or develop one of your own. Ensure you include how, when, where, and length of test.</p><p>EVALUATION: A written test will be given on training day 10. It will be administered in classroom #4, bldg 5301. It will last for one hour.</p><p>NOTE: Use it, paraphrase it, or develop one of your own.</p><p>INSTRUCTIONAL LEAD-IN: “Aviators must know how to interpret weather charts in order to plan aviation operations.”</p><p>SECTION III. PRESENTATION</p><p>NOTE: Read, or have one of the students read, the Enabling Learning Objective requirements.</p><p>A. ENABLING LEARNING OBJECTIVE (ELO) #1:</p><p>ACTION: The student will interpret the information contained in a surface analysis chart.</p><p>CONDITION: In a classroom environment and given a student handout.</p><p>4 STANDARD: IAW FM 1-230.</p><p>Learning Step/Activity 1 - Provide instruction to interpret information contained in a surface analysis chart.</p><p>Method of Instruction: CO. Instructor to student ratio is: 1:40.</p><p>Time of Instruction: 0020 minutes.</p><p>Media: PowerPoint Slides 1 thru 28.</p><p> a. Purpose.</p><p>(1) Shows the location of pressure systems and fronts.</p><p>(2) Provides overview of winds, temp, dew point, and pressure changes.</p><p> b. Collection of data.</p><p>(1) Approximately 350,000 reports of existing weather are issued daily.</p><p>(2) Information is received and compiled at the National Meteorological Center (NMC) outside Washington, DC.</p><p>(3) Surface analysis charts are transmitted by facsimile machine and computer printout.</p><p> c. Construction.</p><p>(1) Observations for surface weather charts are made eight times daily: 00, 03, 06, 09, 12, 15, 18, and 21 Coordinated Universal Time, referred to as Zulu time.</p><p>NOTE: Time of observation is in the lower left-hand corner of the chart.</p><p>(2) Charts are transmitted every 3 hours.</p><p>(3) Transmission is normally completed 1½ to 2 hours after observation.</p><p>(4) Data is normally 2 to 6 hours old when used by an aviator in a weather station.</p><p>(5) Information on weather charts is updated from METAR reports.</p><p> d. Station model (page 6).</p><p>(1) Sky cover, shown inside station circle. When international symbols are used, sky cover is indicated by the amount of the circle blackened in.</p><p>5 (2) Wind direction and speed.</p><p>(a) Indicate true direction from which the wind is blowing.</p><p>(b) Speed is indicated by barbs with 1 full barb indicating 10 knots and ½ barb indicating 5 knots.</p><p>(c) Calm wind conditions are indicated by a circle around the station circle.</p><p>(d) Pennant indicates 50 knots.</p><p>(e) Wind velocity.</p><p>6 (3) Temperature on the station model. This temperature is located on the upper left and in degrees Celsius.</p><p>(4) Present weather and obstructions to visibility. Present weather and obstructions to visibility symbols appear under temperature.</p><p>7 (5) The most common weather symbols used on the surface weather chart are shown below.</p><p>(6) Dew point temperature.</p><p>(a) In the lower left corner of the station model.</p><p>(b) Measured in degrees Celsius.</p><p>(7) Station pressure corrected to mean sea level (MSL) pressure in hectoPascals (millibars).</p><p>(a) In the upper right corner of the station model.</p><p>(b) Indicated in tenths of hectoPascals (millibars) or to the nearest hectoPascal (millibar).</p><p>8 (8) Pressure tendency--</p><p>NOTE: See legend below.</p><p>(a) Is indicated to the right of the station circle and below pressure.</p><p>(b) Changes over the past 3 hours.</p><p>(c) Amount of change is indicated in 10ths of hectoPascals (millibars).</p><p>(d) Symbol indicates pattern of change.</p><p>9 d. Weather chart analysis.</p><p>(1) Isobars.</p><p>(a) Isobars are lines connecting points of equal pressure corrected to sea level pressure.</p><p>(b) Isobar spacing is usually 4 hectoPascals (millibars).</p><p>(c) Isobars are labeled in hectoPascals (millibars).</p><p>EXAMPLE: 04, 08--1, 004 and 1,008.</p><p>(2) Isobaric patterns.</p><p>(a) Centers of highs and lows are labeled.</p><p>(b) Surface winds flow across isobars at an angle of 30 to the left.</p><p>(c) Closely spaced isobars indicate a strong wind.</p><p>(d) Widely spaced isobars indicate a weak wind.</p><p>(e) Fronts are associated with lows and lie in troughs.</p><p>(f) Ridges are associated with highs.</p><p>(g) Buys Ballot’s Law.</p><p>(3) Frontal symbols.</p><p>(a) Facsimile weather charts use symbolized lines and are locally colored.</p><p>(b) A coded analysis of the front is plotted within brackets along the front on facsimile surface weather charts.</p><p>10 e. Facsimile station model.</p><p>11 f. Weather charts in flight planning (course of action for planning a flight).</p><p>(1) Analyze trends in temperature and dew point to estimate possible fog areas.</p><p>(2) Determine position and estimated movements of any low pressure center within 500 miles of the proposed flight track.</p><p>(3) Read station model symbols and compare with current weather reports to see if conditions are getting better or worse.</p><p>(4) Become familiar with hazardous areas along proposed route and obtain a thorough briefing from the forecaster on those areas.</p><p>(5) Check the upwind weather conditions for the effects of advection on the flight area.</p><p>(6) Ask duty personnel at the weather station to clarify anything not understood.</p><p>NOTE: Conduct a check on learning and summarize the learning step activity.</p><p>B. ENABLING LEARNING OBJECTIVE (ELO) #2:</p><p>ACTION: The student will interpret data contained in a weather depiction chart.</p><p>CONDITION: In a classroom environment and given a student handout.</p><p>STANDARD: IAW FM 1-230.</p><p>Learning Step/Activity 1 - Provide instruction to interpret data contained in a weather depiction chart.</p><p>Method of Instruction: CO. Instructor to student ratio is: 1:40.</p><p>Time of Instruction: 0020 minutes.</p><p>Media: PowerPoint Slides 29 thru 43.</p><p> a. Purpose--to portray areas of instrument flight rules (IFR), marginal visual flight rules (MVFR), and VFR weather.</p><p> b. Frequency--every 3 hours.</p><p> c. Station model (page 14). Data taken from METAR reports and plotted on station circle.</p><p>(1) Total sky cover--</p><p>Sky clear</p><p>1/8 - 2/8 (FEW)</p><p>3/8 thru 4/8 (SCT)</p><p>12 5/8 thru 7/8 (BKN)</p><p>8/8 (OVC)</p><p>Sky obscured or partially obscured</p><p>(2) Visibility--left side of circle if 6 statute miles or less.</p><p>(3) Weather and obstruction to vision--to the right of visibility. Only precipitation is shown when visibility is greater than 6 statute miles.</p><p>(4) Cloud base--plotted below station circle. If a circle exists the height will be a ceiling height.</p><p>(5) Weather depiction guide.</p><p>13 NOTES: If total sky cover is scattered or less, the height is the base of the lowest layer.</p><p>If total sky coverage is broken or greater, the height is a ceiling.</p><p>14 d. Areas depicted.</p><p>(1) IFR. </p><p>(a) Ceiling less than 1000 feet AND/OR visibility less than 3 miles. </p><p>(b) Hatched areas enclosed by solid lines on facsimile charts.</p><p>(c) Locally outlined in “red” by weather station personnel.</p><p>(2) Marginal VFR.</p><p>(a) Ceiling greater than or equal to 1000 feet or less than or equal to 3000 feet AND/OR visibility greater than or equal to 3 miles to less than or equal to 5 miles.</p><p>(b) Nonhatched areas enclosed by solid lines on facsimile charts.</p><p>(c) Locally outlined in “blue” by weather station personnel.</p><p>(3) VFR.</p><p>(a) Ceiling greater than 3000 feet AND visibility greater than 5 miles.</p><p>(b) Areas not outlined by weather station personnel.</p><p> e. Position of fronts and pressure areas. Positions are shown in standard symbol form.</p><p>NOTE: Conduct a check on learning and summarize the learning step activity.</p><p>C. ENABLING LEARNING OBJECTIVE (ELO) #3:</p><p>ACTION: The student will interpret data contained on a radar summary chart.</p><p>CONDITION: In a classroom environment and given a student handout.</p><p>STANDARD: IAW FM 1-230.</p><p>Learning Step/Activity 1 - Provide instruction to interpret data from a radar summary chart.</p><p>Method of Instruction: CO. Instructor to student ratio is: 1:40.</p><p>Time of Instruction: 0020 minutes.</p><p>Media: PowerPoint slides 44 thru 50.</p><p> a. These charts display type of precipitation echoes and indicate their intensity, intensity trend, configuration, coverage, echo tops and bases, and movement. Severe weather watches are also plotted.</p><p> b. Frequency--issued every hour.</p><p> c. Intensity level (6).</p><p> d. Configuration.</p><p>15 e. Symbols. f. Tops of echoes. g. Severe weather watch areas.</p><p>16 h. Radar summary chart. LEGEND.</p><p>17 i. Radar summary chart.</p><p>18</p>
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