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Al Marsh

Take 45 seconds to play with G-AIRMET

April 27, 2010 by Alton K. Marsh, Senior Editor, AOPA Pilot

The weather guys are very proud of their new AIRMET graphical weather interface for pilots. Select a few of your highest-priority weather concerns by pressing buttons at the top of the page, then hit play. You can select and de-select weather products while the AIRMETs continue to play on a national map. Spring through time to see what is happening over the next few hours.

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4 Responses to “Take 45 seconds to play with G-AIRMET”

  1. Alan Marcum Says:
    April 28th, 2010 at 12:40 pm

    Great tool. I was a big fan of the experimental Aviation Weather Overlay product, for its graphical depiction of AIRMETs, SIGMETs, etc. all together. This takes it another step. Thanks for publicizing!

  2. JoesPiper Says:
    April 30th, 2010 at 9:25 am

    WOW! Outstanding addition to “ADDS”
    Anything that adds more visibility to flight planning is a gainer to safety.
    Good Job!

  3. Bill Scoot Says:
    April 30th, 2010 at 4:02 pm

    I like it. It even works world wide. A real step forward for a change. Congratulations Al and the crew. WELL DONE.

  4. Don Blakeman Says:
    May 17th, 2010 at 4:49 pm

    I think the graphical airmet pages are great and I use them all the time. But what do the icing labels (eg. 200 over 100/060) mean. I know it’s talking about expected bottom and top layers for expected icing, but what is the third number. I’ve asked a lot of “experts” and searched for an explanation in the keys, and have yet to get a definitive answer. Do you know exactly what is being displayed?

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