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Enhanced Flight Condition Statistics

We recently deployed an improvement on Flight Condition Statistics…

To get there, simply get your airport’s Metar and Click on the Flight Conditions Statistics link there.

Now, the current month statistics will also be available, not having to wait to the end of the month for the flight condition (VFR,IFR, LIFR, MVFR) statistics to be calculated.

You’ll see that when you visit your favourite airport’s flight condition statistics page, a new chart like this appears:

Miami (KMIA) March 2010 Flight Condition Statistics

See above Miami’s (KMIA) Flight Condition chart for March 2010. In it, the percentage of METAR belonging to the categories VFR, MVFR and IFR are plotted hourly. This is a nice picture of the airports average conditions for that particular month and hour. You can compare this chart to the same month last year and see if this month is worse or better than that.

Flight schools can also use this information to estimate the flight hours available at an airport, depending on the hour of the day and month.
Pilots can plan their flight to arrive at an unknown aiport at the best time according to their own criteria regarding MVF, VFR or IFR…

Compare Miami’s chart above to that of Brookings (KBOK):

Brookings (KBOK) Flight Condition Statistics, March 2010

Or that of Delhi (VIDP):

Delhi's Flight Condition Statistics, March 2010

That’s a BIG difference, isn’t it?

Let us know how you like it!

If the statistics don’t show at first, just refresh the page. There are huge calculations behind this and sometimes your browser will timeout before getting the results from our server.

Customize your Home Page

Through Your Preferences you can now force up to four (ICAO) fields to appear on your home page.
Say you are going to be in a different area for a couple of days, and you’ll be needing a couple of metars handy. You can now customize those fields you’ll need for those days. You can always go back and delete them or change them.

Your five most demanded metars will continue to appear there.

Insert your preferred (ICAO) fields separated by commas.

We owe this improvement to Bill’s suggestion. Thank you Bill!

Multiple Metar and Taf easier than ever

We’ve just uploaded a new improvement based on user suggestions.

Some of you had said that you needed a low bandwidth mode to get METAR and TAF reports.
Also, some had asked to be able to get METARs and TAFs for multiple airports on a single shot.

Our initial design was thought in two ways:

  1. Pilots need to know what the weather will be at the destination
    Meteo·Mobile lists the destination weather reports and those for the nearby airports.
  2. Pilots want to know what the weather is like en-route (surface level)
    Meteo·Mobile has the Metar en-route form which will get you all the METARs or TAFs for the route you design

Some pilots, though, just want to know what the weather is like at multiple airports but don’t neet to know what the enroute METARs look like. This would be the case if you’re choosing where you’ll get the 100$ burger today, based on destination weather, for instance.

Also, some users had complained that they were getting too much traffic for their handhelds.

For all of you, we have just deployed a new form to get just that: multiple METAR and TAF reports, period. This is the lowest bandwidth possible weather report.

Give it t try at the new multiple airport metar form