Hello, and welcome to the wondrous world of all things flying! I have often gazed at the night sky and marvelled at the tiny blimps of light blazing through the sky as though they were shooting stars. Many people see airplanes flying as a normal everyday occurrence, nothing out of the ordinary.

However, there is a great deal of analyzing and preparedness that goes into these planes soaring in the sky. Pilots have to cross off a checklist of risks before they take off. A slight change in weather, a glimpse of a certain cloud or storm rolling in can determine life and death for the pilot and passengers in these large flying machines.

I will guide you through identifying important flight hazards from visibility to thunderstorms and overall icing. I hope you can take away from this and see flying-related weather in a new light which you yourself will be able to analyze upon reading this ePortfolio.