Course length: 3 days.

Location: Courses are held in the excellent Met Office College facilities at our Exeter headquarters or at a location of your choice.

Scheduled course dates: 16-18 April 2013

Aim: To enable airport and airline operation, control and dispatch personnel to understand and anticipate the potential impact of the weather on their work. Whatever the size of your organisation, this course covers all types of weather that affects short, medium and long haul flights.

On completion of this course you will be able to:

• appreciate the main global circulation patterns;
• calculate wind speed and direction from weather charts;
• produce a basic weather forecast using airmass principles;
• identify what type of weather and hazards occur on weather fronts and other features that you see on weather charts;
• understand what satellite imagery can tell you;
• understand the major hazards affecting aviation (Icing, Snow, Thunderstorms, Turbulence, Fog and Volcanic Ash) and to anticipate these hazards based on weather charts;
• decode METARs, TAFS, WAFC and low level significant weather charts.

Please see the  Course poster (PDF, 863 kB) for more details and a sample timetable 

Price: £565 per delegate (Met Office training is VAT exempt) for Exeter-based courses (includes all tuition, refreshments and lunch, accommodation can be organised on request). For a course held at your premises please contact us for a quote.

How to book: To book a place and pay online go to Met Office College Online. Click login to register for free on the site, then go to Understanding Weather and Climate, Commercial Aviation. Alternatively, to pay on account email your name and contact details to moc.enquiries@metoffice.gov.uk.

Book by: 31st March 2013.