RAIN OR SHINE

摘要

WE'VE ALL PROBABLY LOOKED AT THE WEATHER FORECAST THE DAY BEFORE A FLIGHT AND seen it call for clear and a million, only to arrive at that forecast time to find the conditions anything but VFR (and our flight lesson rescheduled). Thankfully, the opposite can be true, too, and a call for low clouds can materialize into a perfect bluebird day. Planning a flight when dealing with changing, variable weather can be daunting, but staying on the ground when the conditions are a shade less than perfect isn't realistic. It's important to fly with your CFI in a variety of conditions; it'll help you better understand weather patterns, your personal limits, and the limits of the airplane. As you progress through training, last-minute weather changes should surprise you less and less-forecasts, while helpful, are a sometimes-inaccurate best guess.