Private Pilot for Airplane Category › I. Preflight Preparation › Task C. Weather Information

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Meteorology applicable to the departure, en route, alternate, and destination under visual flight rules (VFR) in Visual Meteorological Conditions (VMC), including expected climate and hazardous conditions such as:

Thunderstorms and microbursts

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Aeronautical Information Manual p. 4-3-14
Chapter 4. Air Traffic Control › Section 3. Airport Operations › 4-3-7. Low Level Wind Shear/Microburst Detection Systems
More advanced systems are in the field or being developed such as ITWS. ITWS provides alerts for microbursts, wind shear, and significant thunderstorm activity. ITWS displays wind information oriented to the threshold or departure end of the runway ... facilities. The WSP provides Air Traffic with detection and alerting of hazardous weather such as wind shear, microbursts, and significant thunderstorm activity. The WSP displays terminal area 6 level weather, storm cell locations and movement, as well as the location…
Airplane Flying Handbook p. 5-2
Chapter 5: Maintaining Aircraft Control: Upset Prevention and Recovery Training › Upset Prevention and Recovery › Mechanical Factors
that can lead to various types of turbulence, such as clear air turbulence, mountain waves, wind shear, and thunderstorms or microbursts. In addition to environmentally-induced turbulence, wake turbulence from other aircraft can lead to upset and LOC-I. Icing…
Aviation Weather Handbook p. 22-9
22 Thunderstorms › 22.7 Hazards › 22.7.3 Downburst and Microburst
Figure 22-9. Illustration of a Symmetric Microburst Figure 22-10. Illustration…
Aviation Weather Handbook p. 22-17
22 Thunderstorms › 22.7.3 Downburst and Microburst › 22.7.3.3 Encounter on Approach
Figure 22-21. Wind Shear Encounter During Approach Reduced airspeed, as the…
Aviation Weather Handbook p. 22-11
22 Thunderstorms › 22.7.3 Downburst and Microburst › 22.7.3.1 Encounter During Takeoff—After Lift-Off
However, it may be impossible to recover from a microburst encounter at…
Aeronautical Information Manual p. 7-1-50
Chapter 7. Safety of Flight › Section 1. Meteorology › 7-1-24. Microbursts
middle layer convective cloud types. Note, however, that microbursts commonly occur within the heavy rain portion of thunderstorms, and in much weaker, benign appearing convective cells that have little or no precipitation reaching the ground…