Demonstration of Mastery Exercise Weather Considerations for Airport Development

Assignment After gaining valuable experience with your consulting team, you have moved on to start your own aviation weather consulting business. In your first job as an independent contractor, you have been hired by an airport planning and development firm who is interested in a venture to build regional airports in the Western United States. Your objective is to generate a report that outlines the potential weather impacts to aviation operations at regional airports in the Western United States. After developing the report, you reflect on how the extent of your learning thus far in the course factored into your perceived success on this activity. The report will contain the following: 1. Guidance with respect to airport planning and development on the use and interpretation of a wind rose, and a public website resource for wind roses. Module 6 - Mini-Lesson: Wind Measurement and its Application provides background information and a public website resource for wind roses (also provided on the report template below). 2. Weather phenomena common to the location that could impact aviation operations, for each of following topographic/geographic location categories found in the western United States: a) Along the US west coast, with steep mountains to the east (an example of this category is Santa Barbara Airport, located on the Southern California Coast, at an elevation of 10 feet) b) In a valley in elevated terrain with high mountains on each side, (an example of this category is Friedman Memorial Airport, located in Central Idaho, at an elevation of 5300 feet) c) In elevated terrain on the leeside of high mountains (an example of this category is Northern Colorado Regional Airport, located in northern Colorado, at an elevation of 5000 feet, on the leeside of the Rocky Mountains) (See cross-sectional diagrams depicting these location categories on next page) Above: Diagrams depicting locations a, b, and c as described in part 2. 3. A summary of the impacts to aviation operations for each of the weather phenomena listed for each location. In parts 2. and 3. above, you will be demonstrating your cumulative (throughout the course) knowledge, and ability to connect weather phenomena like cloud and fog types and development, regional wind patterns, precipitation types, small and large-scale weather system and air pressure patterns, etc., to their impacts on aviation operations. Use the template provided below to develop a report containing the requirements outlined in 1-3 above, adding references for all sources of factual information, and your reflective statements. The template contains additional guidance in fulfilling the requirements. The template is provided on the following pages. Remove the instruction pages from the file prior to submitting your final draft of the report. Template attached