PPGS Lesson 11.6 | Weather: Clouds

Welcome back to Epic Flight Academy’s Private Pilot Ground School! In this Weather lesson, Certified Flight Instructor Mike Thompson explains how clouds form, where they appear in the Earth’s atmosphere, and the different types of clouds pilots need to recognize. You’ll learn about vertically developed clouds, cumuliform, stratus, and nimbus formations as well as how each indicates specific weather conditions. Mike also explains how cloud heights and categories connect to atmospheric stability, helping pilots anticipate turbulence, icing, and visibility changes before and during flight. This lesson helps student pilots connect visual weather cues with flight planning and in-flight awareness, a key skill for safe and confident aviation. #PrivatePilotGroundSchool #EpicFlightAcademy #PilotTraining #AviationWeather #LearnToFly #AviationEducation 📘 Video Chapters 0:00 – Introduction 0:17 – What Are Clouds? 1:00 – Cloud Categories 1:19 – Vertically Developed Clouds 2:00 – Cloud Category Heights 2:38 – Cloud Types 2:58 – Cumuliform Clouds 3:15 – Stratus Clouds 3:24 – Nimbus Clouds 3:58 – Cloud Types and Heights Chart 5:47 – Review and Summary 🎓 Start Your Pilot Training Journey: https://epicflightacademy.com/prequal... Learn more about Epic Flight Academy’s Private Pilot Ground School Course: https://epicflightacademy.com/private... This course is taught by Epic Flight Academy's own Mike Thompson. Mike Thompson is the author of "Telling Is Not Teaching", which promotes the idea that the “new school” of teaching that embraces electronic technology cannot sacrifice the “old school” of human relationships because the human brain stills learns in largely the same way that it has for millennia. "Telling Is Not Teaching": https://www.amazon.com/Telling-Not-Te... To begin YOUR pilot training, visit our website: https://epicflightacademy.com/pilot-t... Enjoying our content? Like this video and SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube channel so we can continue to produce more Epic content!