METAR basics
Aviation Technology · Grade 10 · about 40 minutes
Read a Grade 10 METAR: station, time, wind, visibility, cloud, temperature, dew point and QNH, using HKJK as the example.
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- 8 sections of explanation, worked examples and diagrams
- 1 practice task with hints and worked answers
- A quiz that marks itself as you go
- Your progress kept across every subject you take
Other lessons in this sub-strand
- Aviation weather
- Weather in the atmosphere
- Wind as a weather element
- Wind on the runway
- Temperature and humidity
- Pressure and QNH
- Visibility and precipitation
- Cloud families
- Thunderstorm clouds
- Low cloud and fog
- Measuring the weather
- METAR basics
- Kenya weather hazards
- Weather and flight decisions
- Aviation weather as a safety duty