DGCA ATPL Aviation Meteorology

The syllabus gives Indian climatology two words. The paper allows no calculator. This book is written for both.Pass mark 70%. No calculator. The weather of India. The DGCA syllabus for the ATPL Aviation Meteorology paper is the international list with "e;Indian Climatology"e; added as a heading and one line of names beneath it. A text written for Europe will not tell you when the monsoon reaches Kerala, why Delhi is shut by fog in January, or how IMD classifies a cyclone in the Bay of Bengal. And every sum in the paper has to be done in your head.DGCA ATPL Aviation Meteorology is a complete revision guide and question bank for the DGCA ATPL(A) Aviation Meteorology paper, written by an airline captain and Chief Flight Instructor, and organised element by element to CAR Section 7 Series B Part VI, Appendix B.What is insideIndian climatology as a full chapter — winter fog and western disturbances, the Loo and the nor'westers, the south-west monsoon from onset to withdrawal, the north-east monsoon and the cyclone months, with every date and figure traced to an IMD document.309 practice questions with worked explanations — 259 through the chapters, plus a 50-question practice paper built from what the chapters left untested. No question appears twice.METAR, TAF, SIGMET and the warnings as India issues them — taught from IMD's Standard Operational Procedure and AIP India, including where Indian practice differs from the international pattern.Every sum done in the head — five rules of thumb carry the arithmetic of the subject, and every worked example and question uses them.Every number sourced to the syllabus, a Civil Aviation Requirement, AIP India or IMD, with conventional teaching labelled as such.79 diagrams, including maps of the Indian seasons, the monsoon system and the jets over India, and decoded reports and forecasts with invented data.The confusable pairs, Traps and why they work, On the day, a glossary and a full index.Fourteen chapters: the atmosphere; altimetry; wind; jet streams and clear air turbulence; thermodynamics; clouds, fog and precipitation; air masses and fronts; pressure systems and tropical revolving storms; world climatology; Indian climatology; flight hazards; thunderstorms; observations, reports and charts; and forecasts, warnings and the briefing.For CPL holders sitting the ATPL papers, and for line pilots who want the Indian weather and the Indian products straight.A revision guide, not approved by DGCA. DGCA publishes no question count, time or weighting for this paper: the practice paper and every mark estimate are the author's. The Civil Aviation Requirements, AIP India and IMD's products always take precedence. It contains no questions from any question bank and no past or recalled DGCA question, and every report, forecast and chart is invented for teaching.One of the Mastering ATPL India books, a companion to the fourteen-book Mastering ATPL series.