Mock Test 3: Full DGCA Meteorology (50 MCQs)

21%

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78%

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0.93%

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0.04%

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9°C/1000 m

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4°C/1000 m

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6.5°C/1000 m

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3°C/1000 ft

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Lower altitude than actual MSL altitude

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Higher altitude than actual MSL altitude

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Correct MSL altitude

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QFE altitude

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Only at exactly 0°C

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Between 0°C and -40°C

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Below -40°C only

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Above +5°C only

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From land to sea during the day

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From sea to land during the day

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From sea to land at night

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From land to sea during the morning only

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Cold air flows over a much warmer water surface

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Warm moist air flows over a cold ocean current

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A warm front passes over cold ground

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Radiation cooling occurs over a lake at night

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Only updrafts exist

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Updrafts dominate and precipitation begins

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Downdrafts dominate, cutting off the warm moist air supply

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The cloud top first penetrates the tropopause

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Rime ice

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Clear (glaze) ice

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Mixed ice

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Frost

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June 1

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June 15

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Mid-July

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August 1

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Clockwise inflow and descending air

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Anticlockwise inflow and ascending air

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Anticlockwise outflow and descending air

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Clockwise outflow and ascending air

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A sudden tailwind and airspeed loss

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A sudden headwind and airspeed gain

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A severe updraft pushing the aircraft above glidepath

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An immediate stall warning

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Surface wind speed

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Mean temperature of that layer (warm = thick, cold = thin)

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The position of the tropopause

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Relative humidity only

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The Western Ghats

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The Bay of Bengal

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Northwest India and Pakistan (Thar Desert region)

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The Himalayan foothills

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Pilot reports (PIREPs)

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Conventional airborne weather radar (WXR)

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Upper wind forecast charts

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SIGMET warnings

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Overcast at 100 ft AGL — extremely low cloud

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Overcast at 1000 ft AGL

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Obscured with vertical visibility 100 ft

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Few cloud at 100 ft AGL

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Altostratus ice crystals

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Cirrostratus ice crystals refracting sunlight

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Cirrus fibres diffracting light

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Altocumulus water droplets

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0°

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10-15°

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25-35°

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45-60°

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Less than the SALR

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Greater than the DALR

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Between the SALR and DALR

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Equal to the ISA lapse rate of 6.5°C/1000 m

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Sea surface temperatures are too low

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Wind shear is too high

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The Coriolis force is insufficient to create rotation

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There is insufficient moisture

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Active southwest monsoon

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Subsidence inversion under the subtropical high combined with moisture from winter crops

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Tropical cyclone approach from the Bay of Bengal

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Orographic lifting over the Himalayas

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Flying in clear air at high altitude

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Flying through known or suspected severe turbulence

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Flying on final approach in gusty conditions

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Flying at maximum range cruise speed

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Higher than indicated — over-reads

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Lower than indicated — over-reads (safety critical)

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At the indicated altitude — no error

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Higher than indicated — under-reads

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Anticyclonic weather and clear skies below

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Surface cyclone development and cloud/precipitation

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Jet stream moving poleward

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High tropopause and warm temperatures

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Anti-icing to provide extended holdover time

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Removing snow and ice before departure

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Engine inlet anti-icing

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Runway de-icing

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Once

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Twice

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Four times

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Every six hours

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Increasing turbulence as the inversion top is approached

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Improving visibility above the inversion

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Decreasing temperature as normal

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Increasing headwind due to geostrophic acceleration

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Widespread stratiform rain

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Series of CB cells along a line, often ahead of a cold front

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Radiation fog development

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High-altitude cirrus and smooth air

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Greater than 5 mm

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0.5-5 mm

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Less than 0.5 mm

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Greater than 10 mm

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From equator to pole at constant altitude

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From the surface upward through the planetary boundary layer

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Across an occluded front at constant pressure

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Within a jet stream core

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Read too high — fly lower than indicated (terrain clearance risk)

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Read too low — fly higher than indicated

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Read correctly as pressure is standard

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Have no error as the altimeter auto-adjusts

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Formation stage when the wave first appears

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Deepening stage as the cyclone intensifies

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Mature stage when the cold front overtakes the warm front

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Filling stage when the cyclone has already dissipated

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Only visible imagery

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IR and water vapour imagery in addition to visible

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Only upper wind data

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Only rainfall measurement

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An AIRMET

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A SIGMET

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A PIREP

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A METAR special observation

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The cloud base is at the freezing level

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The cloud top reaches the tropopause and spreads downwind as cirrus

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The storm reaches its maximum updraft in the cumulus stage

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Downdrafts first develop in the mature stage

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0.04%

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0.5%

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4%

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10%

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Probability of 40% that the stated condition will occur

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The condition will occur 40% of the forecast period

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40 minute duration of the temporary condition

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Wind gusting to 40 kt

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340 kt

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661.5 kt (340 m/s)

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500 kt

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760 km/h

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Cold, moist, stable

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Hot, dry, very unstable (convectively)

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Warm, moist, conditionally unstable

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Cool, humid, marginally stable

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Sub-geostrophic and anticlockwise

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Super-geostrophic and clockwise

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Sub-geostrophic and clockwise

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Super-geostrophic and anticlockwise

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Slight erratic changes in attitude — walking possible

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Similar to moderate but more intense — walking difficult

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Abrupt changes, momentary loss of control, structural damage possible

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Aircraft uncontrollable — structural damage likely

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Doppler radar

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Radiosonde (weather balloon)

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Ceilometer

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METAR automatic station

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Solar noon

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Just after sunrise (after maximum radiative cooling)

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Midnight

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Just before sunset

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Ice accumulates rapidly, de-icing systems overwhelmed

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Ice barely perceptible; sublimation roughly equal to accretion

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Moderate accretion — route change needed after 1 hour

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Immediate exit from icing condition required

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The winter northeast monsoon cross-equatorial flow

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The summer southwest monsoon cross-equatorial low-level jet from the southern Indian Ocean

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Tropical cyclone formation in the Arabian Sea

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Western disturbance track over India

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Warm air makes the altimeter read low

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Cold air makes the altimeter over-read — terrain is closer than indicated

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Wind shear changes the altimeter setting

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Mountain wave raises the actual pressure

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Only at fixed times each hour

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Conditions change significantly between routine observations (e.g., sudden fog, windshear, thunderstorm)

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Every 6 hours at international airports

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Weather improves beyond TAF forecast

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Cirrus

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Stratocumulus

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Nimbostratus (Ns)

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Altocumulus (Ac) in fair weather

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True fog formed by radiation cooling

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Cloud where the Lifting Condensation Level has been reached by orographic lifting

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Steam fog from warm lake below

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Advection fog from the sea

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Below the transition altitude — QNH used

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Above the transition level — 1013.25 hPa used

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Airspace between transition altitude and transition level — no cruising here

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Below 10,000 ft MSL in all countries

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Variable wind direction at 3 kt — calm conditions

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Wind 303° at 3 kt — a specific direction

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Variable direction at 30 kt — strong gusty conditions

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Variable wind reported at the 3rd observation

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