A Pilot's Guide to Weather

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The Summer 2026 issue of FAA Safety Briefing magazine focuses on aviation weather and its critical effect on safe GA flying. Articles review some basic causes of weather activity, how certain conditions can affect pilot safety, and tools you can use to aid your weather decision-making process. 

Feature Articles

Steering Around the Storms
A GA Guide to Understanding Thunderstorms
Beyond the Briefing
Navigating the Physics-Based Traps of Wild Weather
Silver Linings, Silver Bullets, and Other Fictions
Avoiding VFR Flight Into Instrument Weather
Air Masses and Fronts
The Movers and Shakers of Weather
Too Much Weather
How to Choose Which Resource to Use and When
The Weather Plan You Never Write Down
Understanding Flight Plans, Flight Following, and Search-and-Rescue Services
Get Cloudwise: Know Your Cloud Types and the Altitudes They Form
(PDF Download of the NOAA Cloudwise/Weatherwise Poster)

Departments

Sharpening Your Summer Safety Weather Skills
Jumpseat: an executive policy perspective
A Pilot’s Guide to Hypothermia and Hyperthermia
Aeromedical Advisory: a checkup on all things aeromedical
An Update to Your Forecasting
Checklist: FAA resources and safety reminders
Eyes in the Sky — For Safety
Drone Debrief: drone safety roundup
A Guide to Post-Storm Airframe Integrity and Corrosion Risks
Nuts, Bolts, and Electrons: GA maintenance issues
Beware of the Green Dot Syndrome
Vertically Speaking: safety issues for rotorcraft pilots
On the Winds of Change
On Final: an editor’s perspective
Cohl Pope, FAA’s Program Management Office
Faces: FAA employee profile

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