New FAA Safety Briefing Tackles Extreme Weather

The May/June 2012 issue of FAA Safety Briefing, now available online, focuses on extreme weather.

Articles provide important tips on how to detect, prepare for, and avoid some of the more extreme varieties of weather conditions pilots may encounter in their region of the country, including thunderstorms, tornadoes, hurricanes, icing, fog, freezing rain and more. Hear from weather experts at the FAA who offer advice on how to be prepared for these situations and provide updates on the many helpful tools and resources now available to pilots.

For more on how to improve your weather knowledge as well as your odds of safety when faced with Mother Nature at her worst, check out the new issue at: http://www.faa.gov/news/safety_briefing/.