School: Engineering

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Aviation Meteorology
  • Unit Code

    SCA1229
  • Year

    2017
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mr John MURRAY

Description

This unit will develop students' broader awareness of critical meteorological influences on basic flight safety. Atmospheric processes that continuously affect weather patterns around the world and in Australia, stretching from a global to a local environmental scale will be explored. Surface and upper atmospheric levels data in conjunction with satellite and radar imagery will be analysed. Weather characteristics, including the collection, display, and application of numerical meteorological forecasts used for operational flight planning, will be examined.

Non Standard Timetable Requirements

Lectures and tutorials

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Analyse the structure and main characteristics of the earth's atmosphere.
  2. Explain cloud formation and atmospheric visibility.
  3. Describe air masses, global pressure distributions and regional weather systems.
  4. Explain upper level weather conditions and analyse associated weather charts.
  5. Interpret meteorological messages for aviation operational purposes.
  6. Apply meteorological principles in air navigation.

Unit Content

  1. Atmosphere structure and stability, pressure, temperature, density, humidity.
  2. Cloud types, formation and dissipation.
  3. Winds, turbulence, visibility, icing.
  4. Air masses and fronts, synoptic chart analysis, Australian climatology global pressure distribution, regional weather patterns, tropical and upper level meteorology.
  5. Operational meteorology, decoding of weather reports and forecasts.
  6. Navigation charts, time and altimetry, wind effect on flight.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures and tutorials.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
TestProgress Test 110%
ReviewDecoding exercise15%
TestProgress Test 215%
ExaminationEnd of semester examination60%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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School: Engineering

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Aviation Meteorology
  • Unit Code

    SCA1229
  • Year

    2017
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mr John MURRAY

Description

This unit will develop students' broader awareness of critical meteorological influences on basic flight safety. Atmospheric processes that continuously affect weather patterns around the world and in Australia, stretching from a global to a local environmental scale will be explored. Surface and upper atmospheric levels data in conjunction with satellite and radar imagery will be analysed. Weather characteristics, including the collection, display, and application of numerical meteorological forecasts used for operational flight planning, will be examined.

Non Standard Timetable Requirements

Lectures and tutorials

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Analyse the structure and main characteristics of the earth's atmosphere.
  2. Explain cloud formation and atmospheric visibility.
  3. Describe air masses, global pressure distributions and regional weather systems.
  4. Explain upper level weather conditions and analyse associated weather charts.
  5. Interpret meteorological messages for aviation operational purposes.
  6. Apply meteorological principles in air navigation.

Unit Content

  1. Atmosphere structure and stability, pressure, temperature, density, humidity.
  2. Cloud types, formation and dissipation.
  3. Winds, turbulence, visibility, icing.
  4. Air masses and fronts, synoptic chart analysis, Australian climatology global pressure distribution, regional weather patterns, tropical and upper level meteorology.
  5. Operational meteorology, decoding of weather reports and forecasts.
  6. Navigation charts, time and altimetry, wind effect on flight.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures and tutorials.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
TestProgress Test 110%
ReviewDecoding exercise10%
TestProgress Test 210%
AssignmentEssay10%
ExaminationEnd of semester examination60%

Core Reading(s)

  • (2009). Meteorology for the CASA PPL/CPL day VFR syllabus. Darra, QLD, Australia: Aviation Theory Centre.

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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