CPL

CHARTS
PROGNOSTIC

99 Flying School (JOAOK)

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INFORMATION
• Prognostic chart.
• A forecast of a specified meteorological element(s) for a
specified time or period and a specified surface or portion of
airspace, depicted graphically on a chart.
• Example:

99 Flying School (JOAOK)

• Wind and Temperature forecast
• SIGWX Charts

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 SPEED OF A FRONT IN KNOTS
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SLOW SPEED OF THE FRONT CAN BE DEPICTED IN WORDS

BOUNDARY OF AREA OF SIGNIFICANT

WEATHER

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BOUNDARY OF AREA OF CLEAR AIR TURBULENCE
THE CAT AREA MAY BE MARKED BY A NUMERAL INSIDE A SQUARE
A LEGEND DESCRIBING THE NUMBERED CAT AREA MAY BE ENTERED
AND
IN A MARGIN

- - - 0° C: FL120 - - - ALTITUDE OF THE 0°C ISOTHERM IN FLIGHT

LEVELS

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ISOL - Individual CBs
OCNL - Well separated
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FRQ - Little or no separation
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 ICING

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 FRONT

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 TROPOPAUSE LEVEL

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 JET STREAM

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WINDS AND TEMPERATURE
• Charts are drawn for the following pressure levels:
• 850 hPa – 5000 ft
• 700 hPa - 10,000 ft
• 600 hPa - 14,000 ft
• 500 hPa - 18,000 ft
• 400 hPa – 24,000 ft

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• 350 hPa – 27,000 ft
• 300 hPa - 30,000 ft
• 275 hPa – 32,000 ft
• 250 hPa - 34,000 ft
• 225 hPa – 36,000 ft
• 200 hPa - 39,000 ft
• 175 hPa – 41,000 ft
• 150 hPa – 45,000 ft 26
• 100 hPa - 53,000 ft
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AVERAGING WIND
VELOCITIES
• Common sense needs to be applied.
• e.g if we have an east/west track with a wind
velocity of 310º/20 kt to the north and 270º/20
kt to the south

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• average wind could be said to be 290º/20 kt.
• Numerical averaging common sense way of
approaching the problem.
• Because of the time limitations of the Flight
Planning examination
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• the rule of KISS (keep it simple stupid) applies.
TEMPERATURE
• STEP 1
• Along the route add up the temperatures and
numerically average the sum total
• Temperature 48 °C

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• The above system is quite a simple way of
arriving at the mean temperature

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AVERAGING WIND SPEED
• STEP 1
• Look at the wind directions involved at approximately 10° spacing
• 80W 320/20
• 70W 250/35
• 60W 240/50 (average between the two velocities
spanning the track)
• 50W 270/15

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• 40W 020/65
• 30W 020/20
• 20W 210/70
• 10W 290/30 (average between the two velocities spanning
the track)
• 0E/W 270/50
• The winds are predominantly westerly. Ignore the two north-easterly
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• Direction 265°
AVERAGING WIND SPEED
•STEP 2
• For the speed use the same
principle as the direction.

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• Give westerly winds a +
configuration and easterly winds –
configuration.
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