Lightspeed Aviation headset giveaway and Webinar Wednesday evening!

[Scott Dennstaedt, PhD]

EZWxBrief has partnered with Lightspeed Aviation, SiriusXM and the Ninety-Nines to give a free Webinar entitled, East coast weather flying during the warm season presented by Dr. Scott Dennstaedt. The Webinar will begin at 8 pm EDT on Wednesday, June 29th. To register, please visit https://siriusxmcommunications.com/aviationwebinars. Once registered, a confirmation email will be sent to you to learn how to sign up to win a Lightspeed Aviation headset that will be given away to one lucky attendee at the end of the Webinar. You must attend the live Webinar to win!    

Time is running out, so get online today and reserve your virtual seat to this educational webinar about weather.  If you cannot attend the Webinar live, it will be recorded and available on YouTube at a later time. 

[BlueDun]

Will this be recorded and available at a later date? Thank you. 

[Scott Dennstaedt, PhD]

14 hours ago, BlueDun said:

Will this be recorded and available at a later date? Thank you. 

Yep...as I mentioned above, "If you cannot attend the Webinar live, it will be recorded and available on YouTube at a later time."

[BlueDun]

Sorry I missed that! Thank you

[Scott Dennstaedt, PhD]

If you could not attended last night's webinar, you can view the recording here.  

[David Lloyd]

Scott, really enjoyed that.  I learned to fly in the Charlotte area over 40 years ago, flew to see customers weekly in the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic states.  At first, I relied on television weather to get the big picture the night before a trip.  Sometimes that was followed by a phone call to flight service for a briefing, for nicer weather that would wait till early morning to get the latest reports, and file a flight plan for a departure between 5 and 6 AM.  I never went in for a personal briefing in Charlotte--other side of town.  Later, DUATS allowed me to pick through the Area and Terminal Forecasts and other products but still relied on television weather for the big picture.  For years I have felt comfortable enough interpreting the weather on my own. Now we have so many weather tools available, it is almost too many choices.  But what you went through in that presentation pretty much vindicated what I have tried to do for years.  Big picture, then fine tune with the other stuff.  The more marginal the weather, the more planning.  Sometimes there was a plan to go halfway and make decisions to continue from there.

You mentioned the wind shear and turbulence associated with hurricanes. Coming back from Cleveland one night I was in mostly clear conditions but it was continuous moderate chop within a hundred miles or so of Charlotte.  Skinned knuckles working the throttle or the radio.  I think it was Floyd on it's first pass, drowning everything east of I-95.  So often moderate or severe is forecast but doesn't seem to happen, maybe a few bigger bumps.  That you even said anything about the surrounding wind shear was something I had never picked up. on.