Originally Posted by
Bri85
Well it will give you a more thorough understanding as if you dont take the course you wont . I took a met 101 class, and a Intermediate class. Mostly the 101 course is basically knowing the stuff you should know to obtain a pilot's instrument license. Such as what is an adiabatic rates, Pressures, components that creates a thunderstorm, Understanding Lows/Highs, Types of Fronts, All Types of Wx Charts, Different types of fog and what creates them, Icing/ types of icings, etc thats the 101, the Intermediate course was more indepth into prognosticating weather patterns. Bottom line if you need it as an elective by all means take it, but if you dont I believe the knowledge from the instrument course should suffice.
Good post. I concure. Understanding weather systems is very important and although your flight and ground instructors are knowledgable on the Met topics, it would help you out more to get the knowledge from a university course. You may like it enough to want to take additional meterology courses and get a minor.