P&E WX WATCH "Assessing General Aviation Pilots' Understanding of Aviation Weather Products," by the numbers * 204 total participants averaged 58 percent correct. * 41 student pilots averaged 48 percent correct. * 72 private pilots averaged 57 percent correct. * 50 private pilots with instrument ratings averaged 62 percent correct. * 41 commercial pilots with instrument ratings averaged 65 percent correct. Low: 27.9 percent answered the question on station plot correctly. High: 84.6 percent of the winds aloft questions were answered correctly. SAVE ON THE THINGS YOU NEED... AND THE THINGS YOU WANT ENJOY AOPA MEMBERS-ONLY DISCOUNTS ON: - Avionics - Pilot Supplies - Hangars & Ground - Services Equipment - Training - Parts - Travel Visit aopa.org/lifestyles to start saving today. this was turned over to the research sponsor-the FAA's Aviation Weather Branch. Instead, we have four sample questions drawn from the published article. One dealt with a METAR containing the remark CB DSNT N MOV N. This means cumulonimbus clouds are more than 10 statute miles north of the airport and moving away from the airport. Another question involved the valid time of a TAF. The answer is on the top line of any TAF, right after the time of issuance. So KPIA 101745Z 1018/1118 means that the TAF is valid until the eleventh of the month at 1800Z. Another question involved using a cockpit display of datalinked groundbased weather radar imagery, and dwelled on the display's time lag. Why is it unsafe to fly through a displayed gap between thunderstorms? If you answered that cockpit displays don't show current storm activity, you guessed right. The last question showed a color infrared satellite image of a wide band of clouds over the southeastern United States. Where were the highest clouds? To answer this correctly you needed to know that the 84 | AOPA PILOT September 2018http://www.aerospacereports.com http://www.aerospacereports.com http://www.aopa.org/lifestyles http://trade-a-plane.com