Aeronautical Meteorological Observer Training - Oman

Weekly outline

• General
  

  General

  • Announcements Forum
  • News forum
  • News forum
• Introduction to AMO Competency criteria
  

  Introduction to AMO Competency criteria

  WMO/ICAO Aeronautical Meteorological Observer (AMO) Competency Criteria

  The following Competency Criteria will be broken up into their individual components and addressed separately in the topics to follow.

  1. Monitor continuously the weather situation.

  2. Observe and record aeronautical meteorological phenomena and parameters.

  3. Ensure the quality of the performance of systems and of meteorological information.

  4. Communicate meteorological information to internal and external users.

  PLEASE TAKE THE TIME TO READ THROUGH EACH TOPIC

                                      AND THEN DO IT BEFORE GOING TO THE NEXT ONE

  • ICAO comparison criteria 2 with the aviation code format File
  • Speci Criteria - version 2 File
  • Aviation Present weather table File
  • Understanding SPECI criteria notes File
  • Understanding SPECI criteria Quiz

    Restricted Not available unless: The activity Speci Criteria - version 2 is marked complete
• Guidelines for updating your PoE
  

  Guidelines for updating your PoE

  Guidelines for updating your PoE

  • AMO Introduction File
  • AMO-1_Quiz
• Competency Criteria 1.1 & 1.2
  

  Competency Criteria 1.1 & 1.2

  CONTINUOUSLY MONITOR THE WEATHER SITUATION

  1.1   Analyse the existing local weather conditions

  1.2   Describe the existing local weather conditions

  • Analyse, Diagnose and Monitor the weather situation File
  • Competency Criteria 1.1 & 1.2 File
  • Competency Criteria 1.1 and 1.2a File
• Introduction to Criteria 2
  

  Introduction to Criteria 2

  PERFORM AND RECORD ROUTINE AND NON-ROUTINE OBSERVATIONS

  • Cloud formation and associated precipitation types File
• Surface wind - Competency Criteria 2.1, 2.10 and 2.11
  

  Surface wind - Competency Criteria 2.1, 2.10 and 2.11

  Not available
• Horizontal visibility - Competency Criteria 2.2 and 2.11
  

  Horizontal visibility - Competency Criteria 2.2 and 2.11

  Not available
• RVR - Competency Criteria 2.3 and 2.11 (see PPS under criteria 2.2)
  

  RVR - Competency Criteria 2.3 and 2.11 (see PPS under criteria 2.2)

  Not available
• Present weather - Competency Criteria 2.4 and 2.11
  

  Present weather - Competency Criteria 2.4 and 2.11

  Not available
• Clouds - Competency Criteria 2.5 and 2.11
  

  Clouds - Competency Criteria 2.5 and 2.11

  Not available
• Vertical visibility - Competency Criteria 2.6 and 2.11 (see PPS under Criteria 2.5)
  

  Vertical visibility - Competency Criteria 2.6 and 2.11 (see PPS under Criteria 2.5)

  Not available
• Surface temperature Competency - Criteria 2.7 and 2.11
  

  Surface temperature Competency - Criteria 2.7 and 2.11

  Not available
• Surface pressure - Competency Criteria 2.8 and 2.11 (see PPS under Criteria 2.7)
  

  Surface pressure - Competency Criteria 2.8 and 2.11 (see PPS under Criteria 2.7)

  Not available
• Competency Criteria 2.9 and 2.11 (see PPS under Criteria 2.7)
  

  Competency Criteria 2.9 and 2.11 (see PPS under Criteria 2.7)

  Not available
• Competency Criteria 3.1 - 3.5
  

  Competency Criteria 3.1 - 3.5

  Not available
• Competency Criteria 4.1
  

  Competency Criteria 4.1

  Not available
• Competency Criteria 4.2
  

  Competency Criteria 4.2

  Not available
• Competency Criteria 4.3
  

  Competency Criteria 4.3

  Not available