ATPL Meteorology

[ScottyB]

Hi guys,

I have my ATPL Met exam next Friday, so currently studying very hard indeed. For those who have done it; how did you find it? A issume lot of high level met, correct? Any tips, feedback, info etc would be greatly appreciated!

Cheers
ScottyB

[SA227]

Possibly not much help as I did mine many years ago but essentially it was the same as CPL met but you also had to understand tropical met.
Also back in those days the met service could actually forecast with reasonable accuracy which is something they can't do now.

[ScottyB]

QUOTE (SA227 @ May 21 2013,6:56 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Possibly not much help as I did mine many years ago but essentially it was the same as CPL met but you also had to understand tropical met.
Also back in those days the met service could actually forecast with reasonable accuracy which is something they can't do now.

Haha your last point is quite true! Thanks for the help SA227. I must say, the Tropical Met was very much part of my CPL exam, so maybe they implemented that not too long ago? I'll be sure to read over all of that again in detail though

Regards
ScottyB

[SA227]

I've just had a read of the AC and it would seem not a lot has changed so if you passed CPL then ATPL met wont be much different.
Certainly if you have a good understanding of the atmosphere, thunderstorms, the ITCZ and Jet streams then you're halfway there. The one thing you will get is a ROFOR interpretation, mine was all the weather associated with a flight from Auckland to Kuala Lumpur so you'll have to work in UTC and no doubt that TAF will include Tempo's etc.
I remember all that because at the time NZ had just gone to the ICAO format and Australia hadn't but the Australian forecasts I got were in ICAO format so I knew whoever wrote the exam wasn't up with the play

[ScottyB]

Sat the exam this morning and managed 95% so not complaining Cheers to those who helped

[Ian Warren]

QUOTE (ScottyB @ Jun 6 2013,11:33 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Sat the exam this morning and managed 95% so not complaining Cheers to those who helped

Good on ya Scotty , I'd love to get my hands on an old test sheet and without , well don't whats in the sheet .. and simply test my braincase .

[SA227]

awesome. You now know more than the Met Office