[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":821},["ShallowReactive",2],{"desk-guide-\u002Fguide\u002Fdesk\u002Fweather\u002F":3,"desk-guide-nav-\u002Fguide\u002Fdesk\u002Fweather\u002F":806},{"id":4,"title":5,"appVersion":6,"body":7,"date":780,"dateModified":781,"description":782,"draft":783,"extension":784,"faqs":781,"howTo":785,"keyTakeaways":793,"meta":798,"metaDescription":781,"navigation":799,"order":800,"path":801,"section":802,"seo":803,"stem":804,"__hash__":805},"deskGuide\u002Fguide\u002Fdesk\u002Fweather.md","Weather","1.0.7",{"type":8,"value":9,"toc":763},"minimark",[10,17,44,51,56,68,130,149,156,165,169,223,239,243,279,286,290,307,310,314,358,363,369,373,435,440,467,471,474,540,559,563,609,614,617,621,646,651,661,665,668,672,679,683,689,695,701,707,713,723,729,733],[11,12,13,16],"p",{},[14,15,5],"strong",{}," on Pilot EFB Desk is a workbench: a stations rail on the left that\nis also the watch-list manager, and a wide pane that reads as a briefing board\nwhen nothing is selected and as one station's readout when something is. Raw\ntext comes first everywhere, the decode sits beside it, and every report names\nits source and fetch time. The line at the foot of every weather screen,\n\"Reference only - verify officially.\", is the module's standing framing: this\nis a personal reference, not an aviation weather briefing service.",[18,19,22],"callout",{"title":20,"type":21},"Before you start","info",[11,23,24,25,32,33,38,39,43],{},"Fresh reports need a connection. Offline, the workbench keeps its cached\nreports and a banner reads \"Offline - showing cached data. Use Refresh when you\nreconnect.\" The ",[26,27,31],"a",{"href":28,"className":29},"\u002Flearn\u002Fglossary#gt-metar",[30],"glossary-link","METAR"," and ",[26,34,37],{"href":35,"className":36},"\u002Flearn\u002Fglossary#gt-taf",[30],"TAF"," archives need you signed in, and a flight-route\ngroup only appears while a ",[26,40,42],{"href":41},"\u002Fguide\u002Fdesk\u002Fflight-brief","flight folder"," is active.",[18,45,48],{"title":46,"type":47},"Reference only","warning",[11,49,50],{},"Reports can be missing, late or superseded, and Desk says so rather than\nguessing. A station with nothing to show reads \"No data available for EGLL\"\n(with the station's own code) and names the last fetch that came back empty.\nAn empty board is not a report that anything is clear. Your official MET\nprovider remains the authority.",[52,53,55],"h2",{"id":54},"find-your-way-around","Find your way around",[11,57,58,59,62,63,67],{},"The rail on the left is the watch-list. Its header reads ",[14,60,61],{},"STATIONS"," with a\ntape under it counting the board - ",[64,65,66],"code",{},"6 STN · 6 VMC",", with an IMC or UNKNOWN\ncount when there is one - and a cluster of controls:",[69,70,71,84],"table",{},[72,73,74],"thead",{},[75,76,77,81],"tr",{},[78,79,80],"th",{},"Rail control",[78,82,83],{},"What it does",[85,86,87,96,104,112,122],"tbody",{},[75,88,89,93],{},[90,91,92],"td",{},"Board (grid icon)",[90,94,95],{},"Open the briefing board - the landing view when no station is selected",[75,97,98,101],{},[90,99,100],{},"Compare",[90,102,103],{},"Compare airports side by side",[75,105,106,109],{},[90,107,108],{},"Refresh",[90,110,111],{},"Refresh weather for every station on the rail",[75,113,114,119],{},[90,115,116],{},[14,117,118],{},"+",[90,120,121],{},"Add a station, watch a FIR, or create a group",[75,123,124,127],{},[90,125,126],{},"Edit",[90,128,129],{},"Edit the board - reorder or remove (shown only when you have something to manage)",[11,131,132,133,136,137,140,141,144,145,148],{},"Below the header the rail is sectioned. ",[14,134,135],{},"Flight route"," holds the stations of\nyour active flight folder with their roles (DEP, DEST, ALTN 1 and so on) and\nsays \"From brief\" - you cannot edit it here. ",[14,138,139],{},"Watch-list"," is your own loose\nstations. ",[14,142,143],{},"Groups"," lists each group with its member count and the worst\nmember category, and ",[14,146,147],{},"FIR NOTAMs"," lists the FIRs you watch for enroute\nNOTAMs. Every station card carries the ICAO and IATA codes, the airport name,\nthe observation age, a VMC or IMC chip, and a one-line readout of wind,\nvisibility and ceiling. A station with no report says which: NO DATA, NOT\nFETCHED, RAW ONLY or FAILED. \"How the workbench works\" at the foot of the rail\nopens the in-app guide.",[11,150,151,152,155],{},"The wide pane is the ",[14,153,154],{},"Briefing board"," when nothing is selected. Its masthead\ncarries the station count, a VMC\u002FIMC tally, the Cards and List switch, the\nauto-refresh control, and the Compare, Display and Arrange controls.",[157,158],"guide-shot",{"alt":159,"caption":160,"height":161,"src":162,"variant":163,"width":164},"The Weather workbench on Pilot EFB Desk: a STATIONS rail with a tape reading 6 STN and 6 VMC, a FLIGHT ROUTE section of six cards for EGLL as DEP London Heathrow Airport, EHAM as DEST, and LFPG, EDDF, LEMD and LEPA as ALTN 1 to 4, each with an age such as 6m ago, a green VMC chip and a readout like 250\u002F12 kt, 10 km or more and FEW043, a How the workbench works link, and on the right the Briefing board of 6 stations with a 6 VMC chip, a CARDS and LIST switch set to CARDS, an Auto-refresh off control, COMPARE, DISPLAY and ARRANGE controls, and six station cards for EGLL, EHAM, LFPG, EDDF, LEMD and LEPA, each with the airport name, IATA and city, a WIND, VIS, CEIL, T\u002FDP and QNH band, a condition line such as 9999 FEW043, an Obs 1150Z and 6m ago line, and a Source aviationweather.gov or SADIS (UK Met Office) and Fetched time line, with Reference only - verify officially at the foot","The briefing board: the rail on the left is the watch-list manager, and each card on the right carries its own source and fetch time.",1800,"\u002Fguide-images\u002Fdesk\u002Fweather\u002Fbrief","web",2880,[52,166,168],{"id":167},"how-to-add-a-station","How to add a station",[170,171,172,189,199,209,216],"ol",{},[173,174,175,176,178,179,182,183,32,185,188],"li",{},"In the rail header, press ",[14,177,118],{},". The add panel opens in the wide pane with\nthree modes across the top: ",[14,180,181],{},"Station",", ",[14,184,147],{},[14,186,187],{},"Group",".",[173,190,191,192,194,195,198],{},"On ",[14,193,181],{},", type in the ",[14,196,197],{},"Search airport - e.g. EGLL, London, KSFO","\nfield. Results list below, with your saved and recent airports above them.",[173,200,201,202,205,206,208],{},"On the ",[14,203,204],{},"Adds to"," row, pick where the station lands: ",[14,207,139],{},", or\none of your groups. The group you had open when you pressed + is\npreselected.",[173,210,211,212,215],{},"Press the airport in the results. Enter adds the top result. An add into a\ngroup confirms in words - \"EGLL added to Domestic.\" - with an ",[14,213,214],{},"Open group","\naction; an add to the watch-list appears on the rail straight away.",[173,217,218,219,222],{},"Press ",[14,220,221],{},"Done"," when you have finished.",[18,224,227],{"title":225,"type":226},"Watch a FIR from the same panel","tip",[11,228,229,230,232,233,238],{},"Switch the panel to ",[14,231,147],{}," and search by code or name (\"EGTT, London,\nTehran\"). A code the app does not recognise can still be watched - the button\nreads \"Watch EGTT anyway\" and asks for a second press to confirm. The rail's\nFIR rows are a ",[26,234,237],{"href":235,"className":236},"\u002Flearn\u002Fglossary#gt-notam",[30],"NOTAM"," surface: they show no weather and assert no count.",[52,240,242],{"id":241},"how-to-create-a-group","How to create a group",[170,244,245,252,259,269],{},[173,246,218,247,249,250,188],{},[14,248,118],{}," in the rail header and switch the panel to ",[14,251,187],{},[173,253,254,255,258],{},"Name it in the ",[14,256,257],{},"Group name - e.g. UK, Winter alternates"," field.",[173,260,261,262,32,265,268],{},"Tick the stations to file in it from the checklist of your rail's stations.\n",[14,263,264],{},"Select all",[14,266,267],{},"Clear"," work the whole list, and the count reads\n\"n \u002F total\".",[173,270,218,271,274,275,278],{},[14,272,273],{},"Create group with 3 stations"," (the button counts what you ticked;\nwith nothing ticked it reads ",[14,276,277],{},"Create group",").",[11,280,281,282,32,284,188],{},"The workbench opens the new group so its member cards are the confirmation.\nOpen a group from the rail to rename it, or reorder and remove its stations,\nwith its own ",[14,283,126],{},[14,285,221],{},[52,287,289],{"id":288},"how-to-reorder-or-remove-stations","How to reorder or remove stations",[170,291,292,297,300,303],{},[173,293,218,294,296],{},[14,295,126],{}," in the rail header. An accent band reads \"Editing the board\"\nand every manageable row shows a grip, up and down arrows and a remove\ncontrol.",[173,298,299],{},"Drag a strip by its grip to reorder it, or Tab to the grip and press the\narrow keys. The order on screen is the order that commits.",[173,301,302],{},"Press remove on a station to take it off the watch-list. Removing a group\nor a watched FIR asks you to confirm first.",[173,304,218,305,188],{},[14,306,221],{},[11,308,309],{},"The Flight route section never enters edit mode: its stations come from the\nactive flight folder. To give the readout the whole width, press the handle\non the divider between rail and pane (\"Hide watch-list\"); press it again\n(\"Show watch-list\") to bring the rail back.",[52,311,313],{"id":312},"how-to-read-the-briefing-board","How to read the briefing board",[170,315,316,319,326,346,349],{},[173,317,318],{},"With no station selected, the wide pane is the board. Read the masthead\ntally first: only decoded reports count toward VMC and IMC, and stale,\nloading, failed and not-fetched stations sit in their own buckets.",[173,320,321,322,325],{},"If any station is IMC, a ",[14,323,324],{},"READ FIRST"," doorway names the most restrictive\none on the board. Click it to open that station.",[173,327,328,329,32,332,335,336,341,342,345],{},"Switch between ",[14,330,331],{},"Cards",[14,333,334],{},"List",". Cards carry a WIND, VIS, CEIL, T\u002FDP\nand ",[26,337,340],{"href":338,"className":339},"\u002Flearn\u002Fglossary#gt-qnh",[30],"QNH"," band, the condition line, the observation stamp as ",[64,343,344],{},"Obs 1150Z · 6m ago",", and the source and fetch time. List is one dense row per station with\nthe same columns. Your choice persists in this browser.",[173,347,348],{},"Press the pin on a card to pin it - pinned stations sort first on the board\nand are what the ops display shows. Press the unfold control to open a\nstation's full METAR and TAF panel above the grid, side by side with any\nothers you have unfolded.",[173,350,218,351,354,355,357],{},[14,352,353],{},"Arrange"," to drag cards into your own order, or use the arrow keys\non a card's grip; press ",[14,356,221],{}," to finish. The order syncs with your\naccount.",[157,359],{"alt":360,"caption":361,"height":161,"src":362,"variant":163,"width":164},"The Weather workbench with the Briefing board in LIST view: the same STATIONS rail on the left with the six FLIGHT ROUTE cards, and on the right a table headed STATION, AIRPORT, WIND, VIS, CEIL, T\u002FDP, QNH and OBSERVED with one row per station - EGLL London Heathrow Airport 250\u002F12, 9999, FEW043, 19\u002F08, 1017, 1150Z and 6m; EHAM Amsterdam Airport Schiphol 180\u002F09, 9999, FEW032, 18\u002F12, 1019, 1125Z and 31m; LFPG, EDDF, LEMD and LEPA below - each row with a pin cell, a green VMC chip and an unfold control, with the CARDS and LIST switch set to LIST","The list reading: one row per station, the same columns as the cards, pins and unfold controls on every row.","\u002Fguide-images\u002Fdesk\u002Fweather\u002Fbrief-list",[18,364,366],{"title":365,"type":226},"Past the station limit",[11,367,368],{},"The board fetches live weather for up to 50 stations. A station beyond that\nreads \"Not fetched - past the 50-station limit. Open to load.\" rather than\nspinning - open it and it fetches on demand.",[52,370,372],{"id":371},"how-to-read-a-station","How to read a station",[170,374,375,392,402,420,426,432],{},[173,376,377,378,32,381,384,385,387,388,391],{},"Click a card on the rail or the board. The station header reads the ICAO\ncode, its IATA tag and category chip, the airport name and country, the\n",[14,379,380],{},"Source",[14,382,383],{},"Fetched"," wells with the observation age beside them, a\n",[14,386,100],{}," button, a refresh control, and the ",[14,389,390],{},"Field local"," clock.",[173,393,394,395,398,399,278],{},"Stay on ",[14,396,397],{},"Now & Forecast"," (the other tab is ",[14,400,401],{},"Weather Charts",[173,403,404,405,408,409,182,412,415,416,419],{},"Read the ",[14,406,407],{},"METAR · DECODED"," card on the left: the raw report first, in\nmonospace and labelled with its source (\"Raw METAR · SADIS (UK Met\nOffice)\"), then the decoded cells for wind, visibility, weather, cloud,\ntemperature and dewpoint, and QNH. A trend chip beside the age reads\n",[14,410,411],{},"Improving",[14,413,414],{},"Steady"," or ",[14,417,418],{},"Worsening",", and a line under the cells\nnotes when the TAF currently reads a different category from the\nobservation.",[173,421,404,422,425],{},[14,423,424],{},"Detail"," panel under it: the observation time in Zulu and field\nlocal, the fetch time, the flight rules in full, then Conditions, Sky, and\nTemperature and pressure rows, each decoded to what the code said and\nnothing more - \"No clouds detected\" and \"None reported\" are decodes too.",[173,427,404,428,431],{},[14,429,430],{},"Forecast"," panel on the right. The validity pill grades the\nwindow, not the issue age: \"Valid for 25h 13m\", \"Expires in 40m\", \"In\nforce in 40m\" or \"Expired 2h ago - refresh for current TAF\". The ribbon\nunder it is a time ruler: a Prevailing lane of category-coloured segments,\na TEMPO\u002FPROB lane for the caveats, and a Now line. Move the pointer along\nthe ruler and a hairline drops at that instant with the Zulu stamp, the\ncategory and any TEMPO or PROB caveat in force; move away and it clears.\nTab to the ruler and the arrow keys step 30 minutes (Shift for 3 hours),\nHome and End jump to the window bounds, and Escape clears. An instant no\ngroup covers reads \"No persistent group\" rather than borrowing a neighbour.",[173,433,434],{},"Click a segment on the ribbon to scroll to that period's full decode below\nthe raw TAF: the BASE period, then each BECMG, TEMPO and PROB group with\nits wind, visibility, cloud and weather cells.",[157,436],{"alt":437,"caption":438,"height":161,"src":439,"variant":163,"width":164},"An older Pilot EFB Desk weather readout for EGLL: a rail with a FLIGHT ROUTE holding EGLL as DEP and a WATCH-LIST holding EGLL and EHAM, a station header reading EGLL, LHR, VMC, London Heathrow Airport, London, United Kingdom, with a Compare button, Source SADIS (UK Met Office) Fetched 22:30:37Z, a 27m ago chip and a FIELD LOCAL clock of 23:47L +01:00, a Now & Forecast and Weather Charts switch, a METAR DECODED card with a Worsening chip, the raw METAR EGLL 262220Z AUTO 06007KT 9999 NCD 20\u002F17 Q1011, decoded cells for wind 060 \u002F 7 kt, visibility 10 km or more, weather None, cloud NCD, temp and dew 20 \u002F 17 C and QNH 29.85 inHg \u002F 1011 hPa, a line reading No cloud detected, Flight category VFR, a DETAIL panel with the observation at 22:20Z and the fetched time, and a FORECAST panel on the right with a Valid for 25h 13m pill, a timeline from 26\u002F18Z to 28\u002F00Z with a NOW line, PREVAILING and TEMPO\u002FPROB lanes, the raw TAF, and a BASE period decoded to VMC VFR Prevailing with wind 090 \u002F 10 kt and CAVOK","The station readout: raw METAR first with its decode beside it, the TAF ribbon as the spine of the forecast column, and the source and fetch time in the header.","\u002Fguide-images\u002Fdesk\u002Fweather\u002Fstation-readout",[18,441,443],{"title":442,"type":226},"Planning aids under the reports",[11,444,445,446,453,454,456,457,460,461,466],{},"Below the two columns sit the derived aids: ",[14,447,448],{},[26,449,452],{"href":450,"className":451},"\u002Flearn\u002Fglossary#gt-personal-minimums",[30],"PERSONAL MINIMUMS"," compares\nthe decoded report against the ceiling, visibility, wind, crosswind and gust\nlimits you set (an ",[14,455,126],{}," link opens them in Settings; unset, it reads\n\"Not set\"), ",[14,458,459],{},"WIND & RUNWAY"," works the components for each runway, and the\n",[26,462,465],{"href":463,"className":464},"\u002Flearn\u002Fglossary#gt-atis",[30],"ATIS"," helper. The minimums card carries its own line that it is personal ADM\nguidance only, not a certified go\u002Fno-go tool.",[52,468,470],{"id":469},"how-to-go-beyond-the-readout","How to go beyond the readout",[11,472,473],{},"The row of links at the foot of the station readout opens the station's\nother pages. Each carries the same weather footer and its own refresh button.",[69,475,476,486],{},[72,477,478],{},[75,479,480,483],{},[78,481,482],{},"Link",[78,484,485],{},"What it opens",[85,487,488,498,512,522,532],{},[75,489,490,495],{},[90,491,492],{},[14,493,494],{},"Winds aloft",[90,496,497],{},"Forecast wind and temperature by altitude, with the raw FD or model bulletin and a freezing-level estimate marked as an estimate",[75,499,500,505],{},[90,501,502],{},[14,503,504],{},"METAR history",[90,506,507,508,511],{},"The station archive filtered to METARs: a month calendar, a day timeline and a ",[14,509,510],{},"Jump to time"," panel over the 30-day on-device archive, with deep history from IEM when connected",[75,513,514,519],{},[90,515,516],{},[14,517,518],{},"TAF history",[90,520,521],{},"The same archive filtered to TAFs",[75,523,524,529],{},[90,525,526,528],{},[14,527,401],{}," tab",[90,530,531],{},"The charts console: a hazard status strip (NEAREST, NEXT CHANGE, UPDATED), a full-bleed chart and a docked hazard list, with a switcher for the Hazards, SIGWX, Upper Air, The Sky and Advisories families",[75,533,534,537],{},[90,535,536],{},"FIR row on the rail",[90,538,539],{},"The FIR's enroute NOTAMs - a NOTAM surface, so it carries the NOTAM footer instead",[11,541,542,543,546,547,552,553,558],{},"The archive page ends in a ",[14,544,545],{},"Station history"," panel headed \"History, not a\nforecast\": flight-category hours over the last 7 days (",[26,548,551],{"href":549,"className":550},"\u002Flearn\u002Fglossary#gt-ifr",[30],"IFR"," or worse, ",[26,554,557],{"href":555,"className":556},"\u002Flearn\u002Fglossary#gt-mvfr",[30],"MVFR",",\nLIFR and Not covered) and 30 days of NOTAM history, computed from this\ndevice's own archive and stamped with when it was computed. It fills in as you\nopen stations; a station you have never opened has nothing to show, and says\nso.",[52,560,562],{"id":561},"how-to-compare-airports","How to compare airports",[170,564,565,573,591,594,604],{},[173,566,218,567,569,570,188],{},[14,568,100],{}," in the rail header, in the board masthead or on a station\nheader. The page opens at Weather \u002F Compare as ",[14,571,572],{},"Airport comparison",[173,574,575,576,579,580,583,584,587,588,188],{},"Build the set under ",[14,577,578],{},"Compared airports",": the page seeds from your pinned\nstations, your watched board or a group, and the ",[14,581,582],{},"REPLACE WITH"," row\nswaps in another list. Type a code or name in ",[14,585,586],{},"Add an airport - code or\nname"," and press Enter to add the first match. Two to eight airports; the\ncounter reads ",[64,589,590],{},"6 \u002F 8",[173,592,593],{},"Drag a card to reorder the columns, or Tab to its grip and use the arrow\nkeys. The X on a card removes it.",[173,595,404,596,599,600,603],{},[14,597,598],{},"Side by side"," table: airports as columns in your order, facts\nas rows - Airport, Category, Observed, Ceiling, Visibility, Wind, QNH, TAF\noutlook, Local time, Sunrise and Sunset in UTC, Elevation, Longest runway\n(open), Runways (open), Field NOTAMs, Your note and Official AIP. Switch\n",[14,601,602],{},"UNITS"," between ft and m for the length rows.",[173,605,218,606,608],{},[14,607,108],{}," to fetch every column again.",[157,610],{"alt":611,"caption":612,"height":161,"src":613,"variant":163,"width":164},"The Airport comparison page on Pilot EFB Desk, subtitled 6 airports - facts as rows, airports as columns, in your order: a COMPARED AIRPORTS panel with numbered cards for EGLL, EHAM, LFPG, EDDF, LEMD and LEPA, each with a grip, the airport name and an X, an Add an airport - code or name field, a hint to drag a card to reorder the columns or Tab to its grip and use the arrow keys, a REPLACE WITH row offering Pinned stations (4), a 6 \u002F 8 counter, a UNITS ft and m toggle set to m and a Refresh button, and a SIDE BY SIDE table with PARAMETER rows for AIRPORT, CATEGORY showing six green VMC chips, OBSERVED ages from 8m to 18m ago, CEILING reading No ceiling, VISIBILITY of 10 km or more and CAVOK, WIND such as 250\u002F12kt and VRB\u002F4kt, QNH from 1016 to 1020 hPa, TAF OUTLOOK pills reading Valid for 29h 52m, LOCAL TIME and SUNRISE (UTC)","The comparison table: facts as rows, airports as columns, every cell stating its own fetch state - and no verdict row.","\u002Fguide-images\u002Fdesk\u002Fweather\u002Fcompare",[11,615,616],{},"The table is descriptive only: there is no ranking, no recommended column and\nno sorting. A cell with nothing to show says why - \"No METAR\", \"No TAF\",\n\"Not fetched\", \"Fetch failed\" or \"Not in bundled data\" - and the Field NOTAMs\nrow is a count with a link, never an all-clear. The band at the foot names\nevery provider and the oldest fetch instant in the table.",[52,618,620],{"id":619},"how-to-put-the-board-on-a-wall","How to put the board on a wall",[170,622,623,633,640,643],{},[173,624,218,625,628,629,632],{},[14,626,627],{},"Display"," in the board masthead. The ",[14,630,631],{},"Ops display"," opens\nchromeless: no sidebar, no top bar, a poster-sized Zulu clock, and one\nposter-tier card per station with the WIND, VIS and CEIL figures, QNH and\nT\u002FDP, the raw METAR, a TAF band with the worst forecast category and when\nit starts, the station's NOTAM lanes, and a Source and Fetched line.",[173,634,635,636,639],{},"The display shows your pinned stations in their board order; the subtitle\nsays so (\"4 pinned stations\"). With nothing pinned it shows your home base\nand favourites and says \"nothing pinned - showing home + favourites\".\nPress ",[14,637,638],{},"Add"," in the station strip to add a station by code or name, or\nthe X on a chip to remove one.",[173,641,642],{},"Press the auto-refresh control to set the cadence; the masthead reads\n\"Auto-refresh every 15m · next in 7m\" and \"Last refreshed 11:57Z\".",[173,644,645],{},"Press the fullscreen control to take the whole screen. Escape exits\nfullscreen, and the exit control leaves the display; Cmd+K (Ctrl+K on\nWindows) still works from it.",[157,647],{"alt":648,"caption":649,"height":161,"src":650,"variant":163,"width":164},"The Ops display on Pilot EFB Desk, full screen with no sidebar: a masthead reading OPS DISPLAY, 4 pinned stations, 4 stations, 4 VFR, 133 active NOTAMs, 13 critical and 46 high, a station strip of EGLL, EHAM, LFPG and EDDF chips each with an X and a + Add chip, an Auto-refresh every 15m and next in 15m control, Last refreshed 11:57Z, a large 11:57:28 Z clock labelled UTC, and refresh, pop-out, fullscreen and close controls, then four large station cards - EGLL London Heathrow Airport with VMC and 7m ago chips, WIND 250\u002F12, VIS 9999, CEIL FEW043, QNH 1017 hPa, T\u002FDP 19\u002F8 C, the raw METAR, a TAF row reading IMC, Steady and Worst from 22:00Z with an In force in 3m pill, a NOTAMS row of 25 active, 2 critical and 6 high with CRIT and HIGH lanes, and a Source and Fetched line - and the same for EHAM, LFPG and EDDF, footed Weather and NOTAMs are reference only and may be incomplete - verify officially","The ops display: chromeless, auto-refreshing, a poster Zulu clock, and every card still stamped with its source and fetch time.","\u002Fguide-images\u002Fdesk\u002Fweather\u002Fdisplay",[18,652,654],{"title":653,"type":226},"A second monitor",[11,655,656,657,660],{},"Press the pop-out control on the ops display, or ",[14,658,659],{},"Pop out"," on an unfolded\nstation panel on the board, to open that display or that one station in its\nown browser window. The child window is a display surface only: the app tab\nfeeds it, and its status chip is honest about the feed - \"Live\" with when it\nlast heard from the app tab, \"Source quiet\" when the tab has gone quiet or\nthrottled, \"Source lost\", or \"App tab closed\". Station ages keep counting on\nthe window's own clock, so an old report never reads as fresh. If the browser\nblocks the window, the toast reads \"Pop-up blocked - allow pop-ups for this\nsite and try again\".",[52,662,664],{"id":663},"how-auto-refresh-works","How auto-refresh works",[11,666,667],{},"The board's auto-refresh control cycles through off, every 15 minutes, every\n30 and every 60, and reads its state in words: \"Auto-refresh off\" or\n\"Auto-refresh every 15m · next in 7m\". It is the same Weather auto-refresh setting the\niOS app keeps. On the board and the readout a cycle\nfires only while the Weather page is in front, the tab is visible and the\nwindow is focused; the ops display drops the focus rule, because a wall\nmonitor is expected to be visible but unfocused, and a hidden tab never\npolls. A refresh anywhere - the rail, a card, the display, a cadence fire -\nreaches a pop-out window within a moment, and a failed cycle shows an amber\nbanner over cards that keep their truthful ages.",[52,669,671],{"id":670},"on-iphone-and-ipad","On iPhone and iPad",[11,673,674,675,188],{},"The watch-list, groups, FIRs, the raw-first METAR and TAF readouts, the\narchives, winds aloft and the charts are the same on the phone, reached from\nthe Brief tab's Stations mode, and your stations and groups sync between the\ntwo. The briefing board with its pins and arrangement, the comparison table,\nthe ops display and pop-out windows are Desk only. See ",[26,676,678],{"href":677},"\u002Fguide\u002Fweather","Weather on iPhone",[52,680,682],{"id":681},"troubleshooting","Troubleshooting",[11,684,685,688],{},[14,686,687],{},"A card reads \"Not fetched\"."," The board fetches live weather for up to 50\nstations; anything beyond that loads when you open it. Rail rows above group\nmembers in the fetch order, so a visible strip is never dropped for a hidden\nmember.",[11,690,691,694],{},[14,692,693],{},"The TAF ribbon has no knob to drag."," It is not a scrubber: point anywhere\nalong the ruler for the read at that instant, or Tab to it and use the arrow\nkeys. Nothing is parked, so nothing can be left in the wrong place.",[11,696,697,700],{},[14,698,699],{},"The validity pill is red but the age chip is green."," They grade different\nthings: the age chip counts from the observation time, the pill from the TAF's\nvalidity window. \"Expired - refresh for current TAF\" means the window has\nended; press refresh.",[11,702,703,706],{},[14,704,705],{},"Compare opens with no airports."," The set seeds from your pins, your watched\nboard or a group. Pin a station or two on the board, or use the REPLACE WITH\nrow, then add the rest by code or name.",[11,708,709,712],{},[14,710,711],{},"The ops display shows my home base, not my pins."," Nothing is pinned. The\nsubtitle says so; pin stations on the board, or add them on the display's own\nstation strip.",[11,714,715,718,719,722],{},[14,716,717],{},"The pop-out window says \"Source lost\"."," The app tab has not been heard\nfrom. Bring the app tab back, or press ",[14,720,721],{},"Reconnect"," in the window's band;\nthe station ages shown stay accurate meanwhile.",[11,724,725,728],{},[14,726,727],{},"Auto-refresh is on but nothing is refreshing."," On the board it only fires\nwhile the Weather page is in front, the tab is visible and the window is\nfocused. Use the ops display for an unfocused monitor.",[52,730,732],{"id":731},"where-next","Where next",[734,735,736,743,749,756],"ul",{},[173,737,738,742],{},[26,739,741],{"href":740},"\u002Fguide\u002Fdesk\u002Fnotams","NOTAMs"," - the triage table across the same stations,\nwith the FIR rows from this rail.",[173,744,745,748],{},[26,746,747],{"href":41},"Flight Brief"," - the flight folder that puts a\nFlight route section on the rail.",[173,750,751,755],{},[26,752,754],{"href":753},"\u002Fguide\u002Fdesk\u002Fwatch","Watch"," - your own thresholds on the same stations, and\nthe watch wall variant of the display.",[173,757,758,762],{},[26,759,761],{"href":760},"\u002Fguide\u002Fdesk\u002Fops-map","Ops Map"," - the same weather as layers on the chart.",{"title":764,"searchDepth":765,"depth":765,"links":766},"",2,[767,768,769,770,771,772,773,774,775,776,777,778,779],{"id":54,"depth":765,"text":55},{"id":167,"depth":765,"text":168},{"id":241,"depth":765,"text":242},{"id":288,"depth":765,"text":289},{"id":312,"depth":765,"text":313},{"id":371,"depth":765,"text":372},{"id":469,"depth":765,"text":470},{"id":561,"depth":765,"text":562},{"id":619,"depth":765,"text":620},{"id":663,"depth":765,"text":664},{"id":670,"depth":765,"text":671},{"id":681,"depth":765,"text":682},{"id":731,"depth":765,"text":732},"2026-09-14",null,"How to build a watch-list, read the briefing board and a station's METAR and TAF, compare airports, and run the ops display - step by step.",false,"md",{"name":786,"steps":787},"Add a station and read its weather on Pilot EFB Desk",[788,789,790,791,792],"Open Weather from the sidebar and press the + button in the STATIONS rail header.","Search by ICAO code, name or city, and pick where the add lands on the Adds to row - Watch-list or one of your groups.","Press the airport in the results to watch it, then Done.","Read its card on the briefing board - wind, visibility, ceiling, temperature and QNH, the observation age, and the source and fetch time.","Click the card to open the station readout - raw METAR first, the decode beside it, and the TAF ribbon on the right.",[794,795,796,797],"The stations rail is the watch-list manager - add a station to the watch-list or straight into a group, create groups, and reorder by drag or arrow keys in edit mode.","The briefing board reads your stations as cards or as one dense row each, with pins, an unfold to a full METAR and TAF panel, and a READ FIRST doorway to the worst station.","A station readout keeps the raw METAR first with the decode beside it, and the TAF ribbon is a time ruler you can point at for the read at any instant.","Compare two to eight airports as columns with no verdict, send the pinned stations to a chromeless ops display, or pop a display or a station into its own window.",{},true,70,"\u002Fguide\u002Fdesk\u002Fweather","Plan and fly",{"title":5,"description":782},"guide\u002Fdesk\u002Fweather","L4CybSZ3IcEcc8cwXEVUimBIuSoBQH198_VnL3RehHc",{"prev":807,"next":814,"position":819,"total":820},{"path":753,"title":808,"description":809,"section":810,"order":811,"appVersion":6,"draft":783,"minutes":812,"number":813},"Watch Desk","How to watch stations and routes on the server, write the rules it checks, acknowledge recorded changes, hand over, and put it on a wall.","Core modules",60,17,"06",{"path":740,"title":741,"description":815,"section":802,"order":816,"appVersion":6,"draft":783,"minutes":817,"number":818},"How to load stations on the Desk NOTAM board, read the When lens and severity meter, open the raw NOTAM, print a pack and set NOTAM alerts.",80,11,"08",7,19,1789377624208]