Many new airline pilot applicants struggle with decoding METAR weather reports, despite their critical importance for making go/no-go decisions in marginal weather. METARs follow a standardized ...

Visual confirmation in flight planning plays a critical role when automated systems are ‘creatively optimistic.' ...

In the coded "language" of weather observations called METARs (a acronym of the French MÉTéorologique Aviation Régulière, often translated into English as Meteorological Terminal Aviation Routine ...

Ok, before I got sidetracked by some exciting weather in the past few days, I mentioned how we code weather observations and send them off to the National Weather Service. Now that we went back to ...