METAR: reloaded decoded
September 5th, 2010 — 8:24pm
A Metar can get confusing at times, specially for newbies.
That’s when it is helpful to have a decoder handy.
The first version of Meteo·Mobile’s metar decoder has just been released today.
It’s far from perfect, but has some of the more important pieces of information always present in a metar report.
While pilots start enjoying this first version, we are already working on the new one, with lots of additional information.
How do you get it? Easy!
Just look for the ‘decode’ link right next to the Heading of the met report:
And here is what you’ll see once you click on the decode link:
As you can see, so far, the decoded elements are:
- flight conditions (lifr, ifr, mvfr, vfr)
- Wind direction, average intensity and gusts
- Ceiling
- Visibility
- Temperature
- Dew Point
- Relative humidity
- QNH
- Metar raw report
Clicking on this icon, we will (re)load the metar for the current field.
With this one, we will get the last four metars for the station.
This icon will take us to the Tafor for the current airport.
Clicking on this icon you’ll get both Metars and Tafs.
Click on the little airplane icon to see the airport’s information.
Want to set up a new metar alert for this aiport? Click this one!
This icon will show the flight condition statistics for the field.
This one will (obviously) take you to the post you’re reading.