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FAA Aviation Weather Handbook FAA-H-8083-28B is a comprehensive guide for pilots, dispatchers, student pilots, experienced pilots, and flight instructors on weather-related aspects of aircraft operation and flight safety.
This important Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) handbook updates and consolidates information previously available in six different Advisory Circulars:
- AC 00-6, Aviation Weather
- AC 00-24, Thunderstorms
- AC 00-30, Clear Air Turbulence Avoidance
- AC 00-45, Aviation Weather Services
- AC 00-54, Pilot Windshear Guide
- AC 00-57, Hazardous Mountain Winds
Pilots and dispatchers must understand all aspects of weather. The ability to appreciate good weather, recognize and respect marginal or hazardous weather, avoid violent weather, and make sound weather decisions is critical to the successful outcome of all flights.
This updated edition reflects key changes for today's pilots, including improved accuracy, modernized terminology, and updated weather products. Coverage is expanded to include enhancements to aviation weather services and global forecasting tools, updates to turbulence and forecast products including GTG-N and NDFD, and alignment with current National Weather Service guidance.
New content has been added on icing, radar interpretation including chaff, and space weather. Outdated tools have been replaced with modern resources such as the Graphical Forecast for Aviation (GFA), giving pilots access to relevant, real-world weather information for flight planning and inflight weather decisions.
The information in this handbook is a key reference for meteorology and weather services applicable to FAA Knowledge Tests and airman certification. It provides critical knowledge for safe flying in both visual (VMC) and instrument (IMC) meteorological conditions.
FAA Aviation Weather Handbook FAA-H-8083-28B topics include:
- Aviation weather service program
- Weather briefings
- Weather theory and aviation hazards
- Meteorology
- Mountain, tropical, arctic, and space weather
- Observations including ASOS, AWOS, METAR, PIREP, and radar
- Weather charts
- Advisories including AIRMET, SIGMET, and wind shear
- Forecasts including TAF and FA
- Online weather resources and flight planning tools
- Icing, turbulence, radar interpretation, and much more
Examples and explanations are supported with online references for further weather resources, definitions, and related FAA publications. Illustrated throughout with detailed, full-color drawings and photographs.
536 pages, softcover.
Published April 2, 2026.
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FAA Aviation Weather Handbook Overview:
FAA Aviation Weather Handbook FAA-H-8083-28B is a comprehensive guide for pilots, dispatchers, student pilots, experienced pilots, and flight instructors on weather-related aspects of aircraft operation and flight safety.
This important Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) handbook updates and consolidates information previously available in six different Advisory Circulars:
- AC 00-6, Aviation Weather
- AC 00-24, Thunderstorms
- AC 00-30, Clear Air Turbulence Avoidance
- AC 00-45, Aviation Weather Services
- AC 00-54, Pilot Windshear Guide
- AC 00-57, Hazardous Mountain Winds
Pilots and dispatchers must understand all aspects of weather. The ability to appreciate good weather, recognize and respect marginal or hazardous weather, avoid violent weather, and make sound weather decisions is critical to the successful outcome of all flights.
This updated edition reflects key changes for today's pilots, including improved accuracy, modernized terminology, and updated weather products. Coverage is expanded to include enhancements to aviation weather services and global forecasting tools, updates to turbulence and forecast products including GTG-N and NDFD, and alignment with current National Weather Service guidance.
New content has been added on icing, radar interpretation including chaff, and space weather. Outdated tools have been replaced with modern resources such as the Graphical Forecast for Aviation (GFA), giving pilots access to relevant, real-world weather information for flight planning and inflight weather decisions.
The information in this handbook is a key reference for meteorology and weather services applicable to FAA Knowledge Tests and airman certification. It provides critical knowledge for safe flying in both visual (VMC) and instrument (IMC) meteorological conditions.
FAA Aviation Weather Handbook FAA-H-8083-28B topics include:
- Aviation weather service program
- Weather briefings
- Weather theory and aviation hazards
- Meteorology
- Mountain, tropical, arctic, and space weather
- Observations including ASOS, AWOS, METAR, PIREP, and radar
- Weather charts
- Advisories including AIRMET, SIGMET, and wind shear
- Forecasts including TAF and FA
- Online weather resources and flight planning tools
- Icing, turbulence, radar interpretation, and much more
Examples and explanations are supported with online references for further weather resources, definitions, and related FAA publications. Illustrated throughout with detailed, full-color drawings and photographs.
536 pages, softcover.
Published April 2, 2026.
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- By A Customer from Chapel Hill NC USA on Tuesday, February 27, 2024
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As someone educated during the 1970s, I still find hardcopy easier to read, review and scan quickly for what I'm searching for compared with a computer screen. Of course this is becoming more difficult to find these days. And so many health downsides to sitting at a desk staring at a computer screen for long periods. Happy to see some are still publishing hardcopy!
One suggestion for improvement/inclusion - I was looking for information on the Ionosphere. Perhaps I missed it but I did not see that in the book. Also, perhaps some discussion about wind speeds/direction at various levels of altitude. It appears surface wind speed may differ from 400 feet AGL, what causes this and so on.
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Great Reference Book
- By A Customer from Chapel Hill NC USA on Tuesday, February 27, 2024
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As someone educated during the 1970s, I still find hardcopy easier to read, review and scan quickly for what I'm searching for compared with a computer screen. Of course this is becoming more difficult to find these days. And so many health downsides to sitting at a desk staring at a computer screen for long periods. Happy to see some are still publishing hardcopy!
One suggestion for improvement/inclusion - I was looking for information on the Ionosphere. Perhaps I missed it but I did not see that in the book. Also, perhaps some discussion about wind speeds/direction at various levels of altitude. It appears surface wind speed may differ from 400 feet AGL, what causes this and so on. - Was this review helpful to you? Yes No 0 Other people found this review helpful.
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