PIREP: Dennstaedt Seminar - xpost

[Areeda]

This is a cross post, but I just spent a bunch of money and got more than I expected.

I just finished a weekend seminar called "Under the Weather" put on by Scott Dennstaedt, a regular contributor to this forum. I want to thank him publicly and recommend the seminar to anyone who flies in less than CAVU weather.

Scott is a meteorologist, CFII and pilot who flies in the real world. The seminar was more in depth that the grade school weather pilots have to know for our private, instrument and CFII ratings.

Scott is very good at explaining complicated topics, he did a great job of creating a complete unit of knowledge that took about 15 hrs to present.

Things I've never found a good explanation of the topics he presented included:

• Numerical models
• Skew-T Log-P diagrams
• Icing predictions
• Cloud bases and tops

My weather self briefings will never be the same.

I don't want to gush too much, but the seminar was worth every penny. Check out his website http://chesavtraining.com/

Joe

 

[Richard]

This is a cross post, but I just spent a bunch of money and got more than I expected.

I just finished a weekend seminar called "Under the Weather" put on by Scott Dennstaedt, a regular contributor to this forum. I want to thank him publicly and recommend the seminar to anyone who flies in less than CAVU weather.

Scott is a meteorologist, CFII and pilot who flies in the real world. The seminar was more in depth that the grade school weather pilots have to know for our private, instrument and CFII ratings.

Scott is very good at explaining complicated topics, he did a great job of creating a complete unit of knowledge that took about 15 hrs to present.

Things I've never found a good explanation of the topics he presented included:

• Numerical models
• Skew-T Log-P diagrams
• Icing predictions
• Cloud bases and tops

My weather self briefings will never be the same.

I don't want to gush too much, but the seminar was worth every penny. Check out his website http://chesavtraining.com/

Joe

Joe, please gush. Especially on the ETA and NAM models and cloud tops. I had to take a pass on the seminar.

 

[ScottM]

Too bad the clsoest he gets to the midwest is KY. Maybe He'll come to Chicago one day. We have some pretty intersting weather.

 

[Areeda]

Joe, please gush. Especially on the ETA and NAM models and cloud tops. I had to take a pass on the seminar.

We discussed 4 of the models and concentrated on the RUC (rapid update cycle) as the one that was most timely for a pilot making a decision today since it is run every hour. The other one I found very interesting is the GFS which goes out 16 days. The link (from Scott's website )to ncep model data is http://www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/pmb/nwprod/analysis/

We also looked at discussions the forecasters publish about the differences between today's run of the models and which ones they like the best for which forecasts this was completely new for me. http://www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov/discussions/pmdhmd.html

Too bad the clsoest he gets to the midwest is KY. Maybe He'll come to Chicago one day. We have some pretty intersting weather.

Scott, he also does these eSeminars, some are free like one coming up on pilot reports and how they are used.

The idea is slides sound and live programs are broadcast to the attendees, sound and text is sent back. It's not as good as live seminars but close.

Joe

 

[ScottM]

Scott, he also does these eSeminars, some are free like one coming up on pilot reports and how they are used.

The idea is slides sound and live programs are broadcast to the attendees, sound and text is sent back. It's not as good as live seminars but close.

Joe

Thanks!! I'll watch for that

 

[Steve]

I use this link

http://twister.sbs.ohio-state.edu/models.html#avnmodel

Several models to compare, including long range.

I hope to attend one of Scott's seminars. Wx is the most interesting part of flying to me.

We discussed 4 of the models and concentrated on the RUC (rapid update cycle) as the one that was most timely for a pilot making a decision today since it is run every hour. The other one I found very interesting is the GFS which goes out 16 days. The link (from Scott's website )to ncep model data is http://www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/pmb/nwprod/analysis/

We also looked at discussions the forecasters publish about the differences between today's run of the models and which ones they like the best for which forecasts this was completely new for me. http://www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov/discussions/pmdhmd.html


Scott, he also does these eSeminars, some are free like one coming up on pilot reports and how they are used.

The idea is slides sound and live programs are broadcast to the attendees, sound and text is sent back. It's not as good as live seminars but close.

Joe