1. Identify aviation customer groups and describe how they use TAFs.
2. Recognize common terminal forecast problems that adversely impact customers.
3. Analyze TAFs to determine which would be considered "good" or "poor" by customers.
4. Describe how overuse of conditional terms (e.g., TEMPO) lowers forecast verification scores and impedes effective customer decision-making.
5. Describe the relationship between aviation verification scores and customer satisfaction.
6. Create a Practically Perfect TAF (PP TAF) that meets common customer needs.

January 2021 - The text/print version of this lesson was updated to current internet standards (mp4/html5), with no changes to content.

July 2014: This lesson contains TAFs produced before the development of the latest National Weather Service directives. Updates to these products are in progress and publication of an updated lesson is expected in 2014.