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Title: Meteorological Terminal Air Report (METAR)
Post by: AG-51_Thud on January 04, 2021, 09:52:37 PM

Hopefully I got it all right considering that I am a pretend aviator.  Attached

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Title: Re: Meteorological Terminal Air Report (METAR)
Post by: AG-51_Razor on January 05, 2021, 10:34:37 AM

Looks great to me  :thumbsup:

Title: Re: Meteorological Terminal Air Report (METAR)
Post by: AG-51_Thud on January 05, 2021, 11:31:54 AM

I don’t see METAR as a common format for us to use any time soon.  My goal was to provide a tool to help the mission builder a way to interpret their settings and aid in providing a summary of weather conditions in their briefing/plan.

After reviewing the various reports on the websites I can see where people stress out on tests.

Title: Re: Meteorological Terminal Air Report (METAR)
Post by: AG-51_Razor on January 05, 2021, 01:52:10 PM

The wind is the biggest bugaboo, for me anyway. For some reason that I'll never understand, the ME displays the wind in terms of which way it's blowing rather than which way it's blowing FROM. So, when creating a brief for the mission, you have to remember to use the reciprocal of what is shown on the weather tab. It is also a big PITA when trying to establish an appropriate wind for carrier flight operations. The rest is fairly self explanatory.