Author Description

"Aviate Navigate Communicate" is the story of Wayne Sand's life flying into and learning about severe weather. When a flight instructor tells a pilot to avoid a weather phenomenon, they need to understand why, based on their personal and their airplane's limitations. "Aviate, Navigate, Communicate" is also a priority sequence learned early in every pilot's career; however, while flying, especially during difficult situations, pilots have trouble remembering and/or applying the sequence. Flying the airplane (Aviate) is always the number one priority, then keeping spatially oriented (Navigate), and lastly, talking to somebody about it (Communicate). Remembering to follow each of these steps while simultaneously coping with a severe weather encounter can become a daunting task, even for the most experienced pilots. Having spent a lifetime as a pilot, weather researcher, and aviation weather consultant, Wayne has extensive experience in the world of weather and piloting an aircraft in adverse weather. This book describes some of the aviation weather-related experiences and lessons learned by Wayne throughout his career in an entertaining and educational way. These lessons will help pilots better understand the atmosphere we all live and work in, what to avoid, and why. Since learning to fly in his teenage years, Wayne has always been taught to keep his priorities straight: aviate, navigate, and communicate. He was blessed to be initially trained to fly by a former World War II flight instructor who believed in seat-of-the-pants flying, providing him with a strong aviation foundation. With this foundation, Wayne built a successful aviation career that helped further weather-related science. Within these pages, take on an in-depth discussion of the hazards associated with stratiform and cumuliform clouds; discover the dangers of wind shear, microbursts, and icing; and understand the continued need to learn all about Mother Nature and the importance of th