FAA Safety Briefing, July/August 2010

Cover of FAA Safety Briefing, July/August 2010

If you haven’t already seen it, the latest copy of the FAA’s Safety Briefing is available as a PDF download from their website: http://www.faa.gov/news/safety_briefing/ and it has some really useful weather-related articles this month.

This month’s edition covers topics like:

• Weather flying – a framework for the go/no-go decision
• Density Altitude – what is it, what can it do to you and your airplane
• Online Weather Briefings – Guide to key resources and how to use them
• Datalink Weather – Using this emerging technology in flight

There are many other articles and useful tips so its well worth having a look. If you want to grab it now, click to download the current briefing as a PDF. They also make past editions available on the FAA Safety Briefing website and you can also subscribe to receive subsequent editions of the briefing via email.