Advanced Meteorology

Advanced Met For Soaring Pilots

A two day meteorology course for soaring pilots

This in-house advanced met course caters for the large number of active glider pilots who would like to take their understanding of soaring weather further, but just never quite get round to it. This is a practical course tailored to our specific needs as soaring pilots and presented by someone who has had an extensive career in hands-on aviation forecasting in the Royal Navy.

After 8 courses, and 92 happy pupils, Matt Ruglys has had enough and has decided to emigrate to New Zealand to work for the NZ Met Office.

Matt has put a great deal of effort in to his courses and Lasham is very grateful for his dedication and enthusiasm over the last two years. We wish him well in his new job in NZ and hope that he can help develop met education for gliding down under as well as he has done for us in the UK.

We are very lucky to have found a replacement in the form of John Gunn who is also a Navy man with a sense of humour, and like Matt comes to us from his day job teaching met instructors at the Royal Navy's Met School. Lasham looks forward to developing the courses further with John to help all keen soaring pilots in the UK take themselves a little bit further with these top value weekend classes.

John Gunn trained in aviation meteorology with the Royal Navy and has worked as a Navy "Met Man" for the past 13 Years. This has involved forecasting at Royal Naval Air Station Yeovilton as well as operational deployments in the aircraft carriers HMS ILLUSTRIOUS and HMS INVINCIBLE. He is, presently, the Advanced Meteorology instructor at the RN’s Met School. John is a current PPL and appreciates the weather from the "customer’s" point of view – the course will focus on practical techniques, with the aim of best utilising available weather information for successful gliding and soaring.

Chris Sterritt attended the first Advanced Metereology Course at Lasham, read his review here.

The student course notes in PDF form provide everything you need to know before booking with the Lasham Office

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