• What is F5?
• Who uses it?
• What does it do?
• What features does it have?

Part 2: The Menu

• How to control the software
• Basic introduction to using F5 and its features

Part 3: Navigation

• Zooming
• Panning
• Clearing Maps
• Refreshing
• Advancing/Going back in time
• Status bar
• Setting 'Home'

Part 4: Your First Map

• Shaded Maps
• Shaded maps with outline 'highlights'
• Display map with labels
• Plot values only
• Contoured maps with no shading
• How to read the label at the bottom of the map
• Clearing a map
• Auto-Refresh

Part 5: Multiple Layered Map

• How to overlay several maps onto one
• Examples:
  • How to find the dryline
  • Plotting wind barbs on wind speed map for a jet stream composite

Part 6: Standard Overlays

• Setting background colors
• Changing the transparency of a layer
• Setting line color and width
• Overlaying roads and road names
• Overlaying counties and county names

• How to set up a terrain background
• Selecting your own background image

Part 8: Animations

• How to load an animation
• Constraining the animation
• How to optimize the animation speed

Part 9: Nowcasting

• Warnings
• Radar
• Satellite
• Hurricanes

Part 10: Forecast Soundings

• How to draw a sounding
• Roaming the forecast grid
• Viewing textual sounding data (point forecasts)

Part 11: Server Mode & Schedules

• How to design an automated map creation
• Setting it to upload to your web site
• Adding and Removing scheduled items

Part 12: Historical Data

• Viewing historical data
• Submitting a new date to view

Part 13: Other Functions

• Saving Images
• Locating a city or county in the U.S.
• Map style options

Part 14: Real world use

• Watch me use F5 to make a real severe weather forecast