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A E R O S P A C E<br />

Hazards external to aircraft<br />

• In-Air:<br />

� atmospheric:<br />

• turbulence (inc. Clear Air Turbulence, CAT)<br />

• windshear/micro-bursts<br />

• precipitation (convective cells, tornadoes, hail, dry hail)<br />

• icing conditions (super-cooled liquid water)<br />

• wake vortex<br />

� environmental:<br />

• volcanic ash<br />

� traffic:<br />

• other aircraft (all classes)<br />

• birds<br />

ref.: J. Townsend: “Low-altitude wind shear, <strong>and</strong> its hazard to aviation”, Nat’l Academy, Washington/DC, 1983<br />

ref.: L.S. Buurma: “Long-range surveillance radars as indicators of bird numbers aloft”, Israeli J. of Zoology, Vol. 41, ‘95, pp. 21-236<br />

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