All Flights
- Check for Temporary Flight Restrictions – 1800wxbrief.com (requires login)
- Overall Weather Systems and Fronts – National Weather Service
- Reserve Plane – SSB Flightlog (requires login)
Thermal Flights (incl. Convergence)
- Potential flight distance and task area
- Start and end of thermals (heights + strengths)
- Cu Cloudbase
- Boundary layer cloud cover
- Wind (direction, strength, gradient)
- Convergences
- Check for Potential Issues
- High/mid level cloud
- Overdevelopment
- CAPE (severe thunderstorm risk)
- Rain
- Validate understanding with Skew-T
Dynamic Flights (Ridge and Wave Flights)
- Wind (direction, strength, gradient)
- Stable layer
- Temperature (on the ground and at altitude)
- Cloud cover (low/mid/high) – where to expect rotor clouds, lenticular clouds
- Wind on the ground at launch and expected landing time
- Validate understanding with Skew-T