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About Some People | |
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Preface to the Fifth Edition | |
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Introduction to the First Edition | |
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Weather Flying | |
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A Little Theory for Weather Flying | |
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That Important Dewpoint | |
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How Air Cools | |
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Season and Time of Day | |
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Terrain | |
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Wind | |
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Clouds | |
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Some Thoughts on Checking Weather | |
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It Isn't Easy | |
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It's Approved and Official | |
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How It Works | |
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You Are the Meteorologist | |
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You Are the Captain! | |
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Checking Weather and the Big Picture | |
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The Big Picture | |
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No Surprises | |
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Satellites and Some NEXRAD | |
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What Do Satellites Show? | |
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Valid Old Map Thoughts | |
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Where We Find This Computerized Weather | |
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Get the Picture First | |
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On Days Off, Too | |
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A Deeper Look at the Map | |
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Watch the Slow Lows | |
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The Wind Speed Tells a Story | |
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Highs Are Not Always Nice | |
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Look Up | |
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A Meteorologist's Big Picture from the Web | |
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Getting That Weather Information | |
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Always Learning Where and How | |
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Some Extra Sources | |
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No One Said It Was Easy | |
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Hired Help | |
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Opening Remarks to the FSS-and Ourselves | |
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Synoptic Again | |
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Look Ahead | |
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The Real Thing | |
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Weather Details-What They Tell Us | |
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VFR-Not Easy | |
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MVFR | |
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MVFR Is Not Static | |
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IFR-Not to Worry | |
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Test the Forecast | |
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The Late Weather | |
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Regulations Aren't the Important Criteria | |
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Pollution and Visibility | |
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How Do You Feel? | |
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More about Wind | |
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Altimeter Setting | |
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Temperature and Dewpoint Again | |
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PIREPs | |
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On the Ground, Too | |
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Summing Up | |
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Checking Weather for the Route | |
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Weather Is Mostly Good | |
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Something on Fronts | |
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Occlusions and Zippers | |
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Large-Area Weather | |
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The Important Northeast Corner | |
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Go the Short Way | |
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It Takes Time to Know | |
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Why and If | |
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Don't Fear Weather… | |
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… Or Worry about It | |
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Equipment Needs for Weather Flying | |
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It's Farther Than You Think | |
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Fuel and the Law | |
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Fuel Again | |
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Instruments and Autopilots | |
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Where the Instruments Live | |
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We Can Keep It Simple | |
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A Little More to Do a Lot | |
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Things Can Be Better | |
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Even Better | |
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The Future Will Be Even Better | |
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The Protected Airplane | |
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Power for Instruments | |
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Lighted Well | |
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Paperwork and Gadgets Are Equipment, Too | |
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Go Fast Slowly | |
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Good Housekeeping | |
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An Extra Hand | |
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Navigation | |
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Radar and Lightning Detection Systems | |
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Temperature, an Important Part of Weather Flying | |
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Temperature and Density | |
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We Better Figure It Out | |
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How Hot, How High? | |
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Engines Don't Like It Hot | |
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Some Psychology of Weather Flying | |
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Self-Discipline | |
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Think, for Real | |
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Turbulence and Flying It | |
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Kinds of Turbulence | |
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How We Fly Turbulence | |
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Convective-Layer Turbulence | |
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It's Rougher Than You Think | |
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Dust Devils | |
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Turbulence Near Mountains and Ridges | |
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Mountain Waves | |
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Turbulence Up High | |
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Where Is It? | |
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The Tropopause and CAT | |
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The Tropopause Is Important | |
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Shear | |
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Where Is Shear? | |
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Thermals | |
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VFR-Flying Weather Visually | |
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VFR | |
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The Famous | |
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A Point to Remember | |
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Snow Is Different | |
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Keep Calm | |
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More Snow | |
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Towers | |
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VFR Navigation-and the Important Map | |
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Not Only Airports | |
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Where Is the Wind? | |
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Near Cities | |
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Summertime | |
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Thunderstorms and VFR | |
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VFR on Top | |
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Using Electronics When VFR | |
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Without Radio | |
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About Keeping Proficient Flying Instruments | |
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Practice | |
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Self-Checking | |
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With Full Instruments | |
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Thoughts on Flying Technically Advanced Aircraft | |
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Single-Pilot Operation in a Two-Pilot World | |
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Dependence on Augmented Indications | |
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Electronic Seduction | |
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Programming Thoughts | |
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Summary of Flying Basics in a Technically Advanced World | |
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Thunderstorms and Flying Them | |
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What Are They? | |
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What Is Tough about a Thunderstorm? | |
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Tornadoes | |
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Hail | |
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The Bad Part | |
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Their Life Cycle | |
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A Clue | |
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The Different Kinds | |
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How High? | |
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The Cloud Layers | |
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They Grow Fast | |
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What's Inside All Those Clouds? | |
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What's Outside All Those Clouds? | |
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Thunderstorm Detection Systems | |
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Airborne Radar | |
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NEXRAD | |
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Lightning Detection Systems | |
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Data-Linked Lightning Mapping Information | |
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ATC and Thunderstorms | |
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More about Air-Mass Thunderstorms | |
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A Cloud Base Hint | |
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Other Air-Mass Thunderstorms | |
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Dry Climate and Thunderstorms | |
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Frontal Thunderstorms | |
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The Surface Wind Tells | |
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How to Tell a Front's Toughness | |
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Prefrontal Squall Lines | |
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Some Rules | |
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If We Fly Through | |
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At Night | |
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Where to Bore In | |
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How to Fly It | |
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Are We Scared? | |
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Something to Be Said for Rain | |
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Fly! | |
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Electrical Discharge | |
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Static and Radio | |
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The Noise Is Annoying | |
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Almost through the Storm | |
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Warm Front Thunderstorms | |
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Low Down | |
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Thunderstorms as We Arrive and Land | |
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Don't Race Thunderstorms | |
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Missed Approach in Thunderstorms | |
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After the Missed Approach and Other Thoughts | |
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Ice and Flying It | |
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About Ice | |
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Dealing with Ice | |
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The Propeller Is Important | |
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Wing Deicers and Anti-Ice | |
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Boots | |
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Hot Wings | |
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Fluid Anti-Icing | |
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We Have to See | |
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How We Fly Ice | |
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Is Your Airplane Equipped to Fly Ice? | |
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Propellers, Jet Inlets, and Other Fixtures | |
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Ice Flying Starts on the Ground | |
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Where We Find Ice | |
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Temperature Again | |
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Where Are the Tops-and the Bottom? | |
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Fronts and Ice | |
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An Ice Airplane | |
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Not Always in Clouds on Instruments | |
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Warm Front | |
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Fishing to Get Out of Ice | |
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Taking Off in a Front | |
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Learning Time | |
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Orographic Effect Again | |
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Cold Front | |
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Flying to Feel Ice | |
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Coming Home | |
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Taking Off in Bad Weather | |
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Altimeter Setting | |
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Be Prepared | |
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Let's Go | |
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Radio Thoughts | |
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Don't Be Bashful! | |
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Off We Go | |
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In the Stuff Quick | |
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How about the Weather? | |
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Once in the Air | |
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Thunderstorms Again | |
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Thinking | |
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Weather Flying En Route | |
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Think Ahead | |
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What's It Like? | |
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Forced Landing with Little Time to See | |
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All Is Normal and It's Time to Get There | |
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Landing in Bad Weather | |
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Flying the Approach | |
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The Instrument Part | |
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Close in, Things Get Tight | |
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Stick with It | |
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When We See Again | |
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Autopilots Doing the Work | |
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Circling to Land | |
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To Touch the Ground | |
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Low Visibility | |
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Ground Fog | |
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On the Ground | |
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An Approach Briefing | |
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The Toughest Case | |
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Teaching Yourself to Fly Weather | |
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Where's the Emphasis? | |
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Learning the Weather | |
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Something on Judgment | |
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Limitations | |
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Suggested Reading and Websites | |
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Acronyms and Contractions | |
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Index | |