DGCA CPL Meteorology
Short animated lessons with a friendly voice, revision notes and 20 mock papers. Unit 1 and mock Paper 1 are free.
16 units · 138 lessons · 20 mock papers
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- 16 unitsThe full DGCA CPL Meteorology syllabus
- 138 lessonsShort animations, 2 to 5 minutes each
- About 7 hours of videoWith a friendly voice and captions
- 20 mock papersPlus a new random paper any time
- Revision notesFor every unit
- A last-day sheetThe facts to read before the exam
- Over 1,000 questionsExam-style, with an explanation for each
- AI tutor40 messages a day in the pack, 5 free
16 units, 138 lessons
Built on the DGCA CPL Meteorology syllabus. Unit 1 is free. Open any unit to see its lessons.
- 1Layers of the atmosphere and the tropopauseFree5:03
- 2The International Standard AtmosphereFree3:22
- 3Worked: ISA deviationFree3:42
- 4Measuring temperature: units and the screenFree3:46
- 5The Sun heats the ground, the ground heats the airFree3:00
- 6Moving heat: conduction, convection, advection, turbulenceFree2:51
- 7Lapse rates and inversionsFree4:03
- 8Surface temperature: day, night, cloud and windFree3:25
- 1Air pressure and the barometer
- 2Isobars: highs, lows, troughs, ridges and cols
- 3How fast pressure falls with height
- 4Worked: height from a pressure difference
- 5Pressure levels and contour charts
- 6Warm and cold pressure systems: surface and aloft
- 7QFE, QNH and QFF
- 8Density: pressure, temperature and humidity
- 9Height, altitude, flight level and pressure altitude
- 10Transition altitude, level and layer
- 11Worked: altimeter readings on QNH, QFE and 1013
- 12High to low, look out below
- 13Worked: true altitude and the 4% rule
- 14Worked: terrain clearance and lowest usable flight levelExtra
- 1Wind: what is reported and how it is measured
- 2Why wind blows: the pressure gradient force
- 3Coriolis: the Earth turns under the wind
- 4The geostrophic wind and Buys Ballot's law
- 5The gradient wind: curved isobars
- 6The friction layer: surface wind backs and slows
- 7Day and night: the surface wind changes
- 8Worked: surface wind from the 2,000 ft wind
- 9Convergence and divergence
- 10Sea breeze and land breeze
- 11Anabatic, katabatic, mountain and valley winds
- 12The Venturi effect: gaps, valleys and the altimeter
- 13Upper winds: why the wind grows with height
- 14Jet streams: what they are and why they form
- 15Where the jets are: polar, subtropical, easterly, Arctic
- 16Recognising and crossing a jet stream
- 1Turbulence: the types and where to find them
- 2Clear-air turbulence
- 3Turbulence in flight: intensity, effects, avoidance
- 4Mountain waves and rotors
- 5Wind shear: what it is and where it forms
- 6Flying through wind shear
- 1Water vapour, saturation and dew point
- 2Relative humidity and mixing ratio
- 3Changes of state and latent heat
- 4Nuclei and supercooled water
- 1Rising air cools: the dry adiabatic lapse rate
- 2Saturated air cools more slowly
- 3Stable or unstable: compare the parcel with its surroundings
- 4Conditional instability
- 5Worked: cloud base and stability
- 6What changes stability
- 7The föhn effectExtra
- 8Worked: föhn temperaturesExtra
- 1How clouds form: four ways to cool air
- 2The ten cloud types
- 3Cloud species and features
- 4Stable clouds, unstable clouds, and the lid
- 5Cloud amount, base and ceiling
- 6Flying in each cloud typeExtra
- 7Condensation trails
- 8Halos, coronas, rainbows and other sky optics
- 1How rain forms
- 2Types of precipitation and the clouds that give them
- 3Freezing rain and ice pellets
- 1Fog, mist and haze
- 2Radiation fog
- 3Advection fog and sea smoke
- 4Frontal fog and hill fog
- 5Visibility and runway visual range
- 6What else cuts visibility
- 1Air masses and where they come from
- 2How air masses change on the way
- 3Fronts: where air masses meet
- 4The warm front
- 5The cold front
- 6The warm sector and the air behind the cold front
- 7Walkthrough: flying through a frontal depression
- 8Occlusions
- 9Stationary fronts, ana and kata fronts
- 10The life of a depression
- 1Depressions and troughs
- 2Anticyclones and ridges
- 3Cols and how pressure systems move
- 4Lows without fronts
- 5Tropical revolving storms
- 6Tornadoes and dust devilsExtra
- 1The global circulation: three cells
- 2Pressure belts and winds of the world
- 3Climate zonesExtra
- 4The Intertropical Convergence Zone
- 5Tropical weather: showers, squall lines and easterly wavesExtra
- 6Monsoons of the worldExtra
- 7Sandstorms, cold-air outbreaks and the HarmattanExtra
- 8Mid-latitude weather patterns
- 9Local winds of the worldExtra
- 1India's four seasons
- 2The southwest monsoon: onset, active spells and breaks
- 3Monsoon weather systems of India
- 4The northeast monsoon and post-monsoon season
- 5Pre-monsoon: nor'westers, kalbaisakhi, andhis and loo
- 6Western disturbances and winter in north India
- 7Cyclones of the Bay of Bengal and Arabian Sea
- 1Icing: when and why ice forms on an aircraft
- 2Clear ice, rime ice, mixed ice and hoar frost
- 3Icing: severity, where to expect it and how to avoid it
- 4Carburettor icing and ice crystal icing
- 5How a thunderstorm forms
- 6The life of a thunderstorm
- 7Lightning and static
- 8Downbursts and microbursts
- 9Avoiding thunderstorms
- 10Flying high: inversions, the tropopause and the stratosphere
- 11Mountain flying hazards
- 1How the weather is observed
- 2Weather instruments: what measures what
- 3Reading satellite picturesExtra
- 4Reading weather radar
- 5Reading a station model
- 6Reading a surface chart
- 7Upper wind and temperature charts
- 8Worked: wind and temperature for a route
- 9Significant weather chart symbols
- 10Walkthrough: a SIGWX chart for a route
- 1METAR 1: wind, visibility, RVR and weather
- 2METAR 2: cloud, temperature, QNH, trend and runway state
- 3TAF
- 4SIGMET, AIRMET and special air reports
- 5Volcanic ash and tropical cyclone advisories
- 6Aerodrome and wind shear warnings
- 7VOLMET, ATIS and weather in flight
- 8Who makes the weather information
- 9Walkthrough: a pre-flight weather briefing
- 10Indian route and area forecasts and the flight folder
- 11US weather productsExtra
- 12Weather on the flight deckExtra
ExtraBeyond the CPL syllabus. Good to know. Open to every buyer.
20 mock papers, plus random ones
Each paper is a full exam. Paper 1 is free, and you can take it as often as you like.
- 50 questions
- 1 h 30
- Pass 70%
- No negative marking
- No calculator
- 1Paper 1Free · take it again any time
- 2Paper 2
- 3Paper 3
- 4Paper 4
- 5Paper 5
- 6Paper 6
- 7Paper 7
- 8Paper 8
- 9Paper 9
- 10Paper 10
- 11Paper 11
- 12Paper 12
- 13Paper 13
- 14Paper 14
- 15Paper 15
- 16Paper 16
- 17Paper 17
- 18Paper 18
- 19Paper 19
- 20Paper 20
- New random paperFresh questions any time · In the pack
New random paper Fresh questions any time · In the pack.
Mock exams follow the format candidates report. DGCA can change it.
Notes for every unit and a last-day sheet
Tick off each block as you revise. The night before, read one sheet with the facts that matter.
UNIT 1 · THE INTERNATIONAL STANDARD ATMOSPHERE
- Sea level: 15°C and 1013.25 hPa.
- Temperature falls 2°C per 1,000 ft up to the tropopause.
- ISA deviation = actual temperature − ISA temperature.
Revision notes for every unit
Short blocks that match the lessons. Unit 1 notes are free.
A last-day sheet
The numbers and rules to read before you walk into the exam. In the pack.
Watch · Play · Remember · Test
Every lesson takes 2 to 5 minutes and follows the same four steps.
- STEP 1WatchA short animation with a friendly voice. It stops to ask what you think will happen.
- STEP 2PlayTry it yourself: move the parts, read the instrument, or work the sum on a keypad.
- STEP 3RememberA few cards with the key facts. They come back for review before you forget.
- STEP 4Test5 to 10 exam-style questions. Wrong answers go to your review list.
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It covers the DGCA CPL Meteorology syllabus in 16 units. Use it alongside your flying school and the official DGCA material.
Each lesson takes 2 to 5 minutes. There are 138 lessons, about 7 hours of video in all.
Some lessons go beyond the CPL syllabus, such as the föhn effect and US weather products. They carry an Extra chip. They are good to know, and every buyer gets them.
No. We write our own exam-style questions. Mock exams follow the format candidates report. DGCA can change it.
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