[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":610},["ShallowReactive",2],{"guide-\u002Fguide\u002Fweather\u002F":3,"guide-nav-\u002Fguide\u002Fweather\u002F":595},{"id":4,"title":5,"appVersion":6,"body":7,"date":569,"dateModified":570,"description":571,"draft":572,"extension":573,"faqs":570,"howTo":574,"keyTakeaways":582,"meta":587,"metaDescription":570,"navigation":588,"order":589,"path":590,"section":591,"seo":592,"stem":593,"__hash__":594},"guide\u002Fguide\u002Fweather.md","Weather","1.0.0",{"type":8,"value":9,"toc":554},"minimark",[10,27,35,40,79,88,93,96,100,121,126,137,141,144,227,232,239,243,250,255,260,263,295,299,302,307,314,318,324,414,419,424,429,436,443,449,454,460,467,471,497,502,507,512,516,519,527,531],[11,12,13,14,18,19,22,23,26],"p",{},"Weather in Pilot EFB lives in the ",[15,16,17],"strong",{},"Brief tab",". The tab has two modes behind\none switch: ",[15,20,21],{},"Flight Brief"," builds a briefing package for a whole route, and\n",[15,24,25],{},"Stations"," - this chapter - is the idle watch-list: the airports you keep an\neye on between flights, each with its live weather. The line at the foot of\nevery weather screen - \"Reference only - verify officially.\" - is the module's\nstanding framing.",[28,29,32],"callout",{"title":30,"type":31},"Reference only","warning",[11,33,34],{},"Pilot EFB's weather is an informational companion, not an aviation weather\nbriefing service. Reports can be missing, late or superseded, and the app says\nso rather than guessing - a station with nothing to show says \"No data\navailable\" and tells you to verify with official sources. Your official MET\nprovider remains the authority.",[36,37,39],"h2",{"id":38},"watch-an-airport","Watch an airport",[41,42,43,54,76],"ol",{},[44,45,46,47,49,50,53],"li",{},"On the Brief tab, switch to ",[15,48,25],{}," and tap the ",[15,51,52],{},"+"," button\n(bottom-right).",[44,55,56,57,60,61,71,72,75],{},"Choose ",[15,58,59],{},"Add a station"," - the same menu also watches a region's enroute\nNOTAMs (",[15,62,63,64],{},"Add a FIR ",[65,66,70],"a",{"href":67,"className":68},"\u002Flearn\u002Fglossary#gt-notam",[69],"glossary-link","NOTAM",") and organises stations into folders\n(",[15,73,74],{},"Create a group",").",[44,77,78],{},"Search by ICAO code, name or city - \"EGLL\", \"Heathrow\" and \"London\" all\nfind the same airport - and tap the result to watch it. The search stays\nopen, so several airports can be added in one go.",[80,81],"guide-shot",{"alt":82,"caption":83,"height":84,"src":85,"variant":86,"width":87},"The Add to Stations sheet over the watch-list: three choices - Add a station to watch an airport's live weather, Add a FIR NOTAM to watch a region's enroute NOTAMs, and Create a group to organise several stations into a folder","The + menu: watch an airport's weather, watch a region's enroute NOTAMs, or make a group.",2622,"\u002Fguide-images\u002Fweather\u002Fstations-add-menu","iphone",1206,[80,89],{"alt":90,"caption":91,"height":84,"src":92,"variant":86,"width":87},"The add-station search with KJFK typed: a result row reading KJFK John F. Kennedy International with a plus icon, above the existing watch-list and the keyboard","Search by code, name or city; a tap on the result starts watching the airport.","\u002Fguide-images\u002Fweather\u002Fstations-add",[11,94,95],{},"Watching costs nothing and is not capped at your home base - add every\nairport you care about. The list is yours to curate: swipe a card left to\nstop watching, with an undo if the swipe was a slip.",[36,97,99],{"id":98},"the-watch-list-at-a-glance","The watch-list at a glance",[11,101,102,103,106,107,110,111,120],{},"Each watched station is one card: the ICAO and airport name, a\n",[15,104,105],{},"flight-rules badge"," (VMC here; the badge follows the station's current\ncategory), an ",[15,108,109],{},"age pill"," counting from the observation time, and the\n",[15,112,113,114,119],{},"raw ",[65,115,118],{"href":116,"className":117},"\u002Flearn\u002Fglossary#gt-metar",[69],"METAR"," verbatim"," with its source and fetch time underneath. No\nparaphrase stands in for the report - the raw text is always the headline.",[80,122],{"alt":123,"caption":124,"height":84,"src":125,"variant":86,"width":87},"The Brief tab in Stations mode: 4 stations watched, a Flight Brief and Stations mode switch, and station cards for EGLL London Heathrow, EGKK London Gatwick and EHAM Amsterdam Schiphol - each with a VMC badge, an age pill of a few minutes, the raw METAR text and a source line naming SADIS UK Met Office or aviationweather.gov","The watch-list: raw METARs, flight-rules badges and ages - every card attributed to its source.","\u002Fguide-images\u002Fweather\u002Fstations-list",[11,127,128,129,132,133,136],{},"Two honesty details worth noticing in that frame: the ",[15,130,131],{},"source line differs\nper station"," (SADIS from the UK Met Office, aviationweather.gov elsewhere) -\nthe app names where each report actually came from, not a generic \"live\ndata\" - and the age pill counts from the ",[15,134,135],{},"observation",", not from when the\napp happened to download it. Offline, the list keeps its cached reports and\na banner says exactly that: cached data, pull to refresh when you reconnect.",[36,138,140],{"id":139},"the-station-workbench","The station workbench",[11,142,143],{},"Tap any card and the station opens into a tabbed workbench. The segment\nstrip scrolls sideways to reach the later tabs:",[145,146,147,160],"table",{},[148,149,150],"thead",{},[151,152,153,157],"tr",{},[154,155,156],"th",{},"Segment",[154,158,159],{},"What it shows",[161,162,163,174,184,193,207,217],"tbody",{},[151,164,165,171],{},[166,167,168],"td",{},[15,169,170],{},"Airport",[166,172,173],{},"The airport's reference details",[151,175,176,181],{},[166,177,178],{},[15,179,180],{},"Summary",[166,182,183],{},"METAR, forecast, NOTAM count and winds in one scroll",[151,185,186,190],{},[166,187,188],{},[15,189,118],{},[166,191,192],{},"The full observation, raw and decoded",[151,194,195,204],{},[166,196,197],{},[15,198,199],{},[65,200,203],{"href":201,"className":202},"\u002Flearn\u002Fglossary#gt-taf",[69],"TAF",[166,205,206],{},"The full forecast with its timeline",[151,208,209,214],{},[166,210,211],{},[15,212,213],{},"NOTAMs",[166,215,216],{},"The station's NOTAMs, raw text kept",[151,218,219,224],{},[166,220,221],{},[15,222,223],{},"Weather Charts",[166,225,226],{},"The wider picture - hazards, SIGWX, imagery",[80,228],{"alt":229,"caption":230,"height":84,"src":231,"variant":86,"width":87},"The EGLL station workbench on its Summary segment: the raw METAR with a decoded strip for wind, ceiling, visibility, QNH and temp\u002Fdewpoint, a Forecast TAF card with an IMC badge reading worst forecast from 02:00Z, and a NOTAMs card reading 27 active, 13 upcoming with a Verify with official NOTAM sources line","The Summary segment: observation, forecast outlook and NOTAM count in one scroll - with the verify-officially line where it belongs.","\u002Fguide-images\u002Fweather\u002Fstation-summary",[11,233,234,235,238],{},"The Summary's forecast card grades itself on the ",[15,236,237],{},"worst period"," of the\nTAF - a VMC afternoon with thunderstorms forecast overnight shows the IMC\nbadge, not the comfortable now.",[36,240,242],{"id":241},"read-a-metar","Read a METAR",[11,244,245,246,249],{},"The METAR segment keeps a strict order: the ",[15,247,248],{},"raw report first",", in\nmonospace with its source and observation time on the card - then the\ndecode underneath, supplementing the raw text rather than replacing it.",[80,251],{"alt":252,"caption":253,"height":84,"src":254,"variant":86,"width":87},"The METAR segment for EGLL: VMC and Steady trend badges with an 11 minutes ago age pill, the raw METAR labelled SADIS UK Met Office with its observation time, a decoded strip for wind, ceiling, visibility, QNH and temp\u002Fdewpoint, and the start of the decoded card listing observation time, fetch time and Visual Flight Rules","Raw first, decoded underneath - with the observation time, fetch time and flight rules named explicitly.","\u002Fguide-images\u002Fweather\u002Fstation-metar",[80,256],{"alt":257,"caption":258,"height":84,"src":259,"variant":86,"width":87},"Further down the METAR decode: cloud and ceiling lines reading no clouds detected and no ceiling reported, an estimated cumuliform cloud base from the temperature spread, temperature, altimeter and QNH with a 3-hour trend, a note that AUTO means a fully automated report, and a Personal minimums card reading Personal ADM guidance only - not a certified go\u002Fno-go tool","The decode explains what the code said - including what it did not say - and the personal-minimums comparator keeps its own disclaimer.","\u002Fguide-images\u002Fweather\u002Fstation-metar-decoded",[11,261,262],{},"Things the METAR view does for you, all visible in those frames:",[264,265,266,272,278,289],"ul",{},[44,267,268,271],{},[15,269,270],{},"Ages honestly."," The pill counts from the observation; an ageing\nobservation escalates to \"Aging - refresh recommended\" and, past three\nhours, \"Over 3h old - refresh before use\".",[44,273,274,277],{},[15,275,276],{},"Decodes the silences."," \"No clouds detected\" and \"No ceiling reported\"\nare decoded as exactly that - absence of data is never presented as clear\nskies, and an AUTO report is flagged as having no human observer.",[44,279,280,288],{},[15,281,282,283],{},"Compares against your ",[65,284,287],{"href":285,"className":286},"\u002Flearn\u002Fglossary#gt-personal-minimums",[69],"personal minimums"," if you set them - ceiling,\nvisibility, wind and gust thresholds - and the card carries its own\nframing verbatim: \"Personal ADM guidance only - not a certified go\u002Fno-go\ntool.\"",[44,290,291,294],{},[15,292,293],{},"Breaks wind into runway components"," for the station's runways, and\nkeeps the trend groups (BECMG, TEMPO, NOSIG) in their raw form.",[36,296,298],{"id":297},"read-a-taf","Read a TAF",[11,300,301],{},"The TAF segment shows the raw forecast first, then a validity card and a\nperiod-by-period timeline.",[80,303],{"alt":304,"caption":305,"height":84,"src":306,"variant":86,"width":87},"The TAF segment for EGLL: the raw TAF verbatim labelled SADIS UK Met Office, with PROB30 and TEMPO groups for showers and thunderstorms, above a validity card reading Valid 25 18:00Z to 27 00:00Z, 30 hours, with a green Valid for 28h 29m pill and the issue and fetch times","The raw TAF and its validity window - the freshness pill grades the window, not the issue age.","\u002Fguide-images\u002Fweather\u002Fstation-taf",[11,308,309,310,313],{},"The freshness pill here works differently from the METAR's, on purpose. A\nTAF is reissued only every few hours but stays in force for 24 to 30, so\nthe current, authoritative forecast is routinely hours old - grading it by\nissue age would cry wolf. Instead the pill follows the ",[15,311,312],{},"validity window",":\n\"Valid for 28h 29m\" while in force, \"Expires in ...\" with a note that a\nnewer TAF may be available in its final stretch, and \"Expired - refresh for\ncurrent TAF\" only once the window has actually ended.",[36,315,317],{"id":316},"the-weather-picture","The weather picture",[11,319,320,321,323],{},"The ",[15,322,223],{}," segment opens the wider view around the station,\norganised into five families:",[145,325,326,339],{},[148,327,328],{},[151,329,330,333,336],{},[154,331,332],{},"Family",[154,334,335],{},"What it holds",[154,337,338],{},"Tier",[161,340,341,365,378,390,402],{},[151,342,343,348,362],{},[166,344,345],{},[15,346,347],{},"Hazards",[166,349,350,355,356,361],{},[65,351,354],{"href":352,"className":353},"\u002Flearn\u002Fglossary#gt-sigmet",[69],"SIGMET"," \u002F ",[65,357,360],{"href":358,"className":359},"\u002Flearn\u002Fglossary#gt-airmet",[69],"AIRMET"," hazards on a map",[166,363,364],{},"Free",[151,366,367,372,375],{},[166,368,369],{},[15,370,371],{},"Significant Weather",[166,373,374],{},"WAFS high-level SIGWX forecast",[166,376,377],{},"Pro",[151,379,380,385,388],{},[166,381,382],{},[15,383,384],{},"Upper Air",[166,386,387],{},"Winds and temperatures aloft, meteogram",[166,389,377],{},[151,391,392,397,400],{},[166,393,394],{},[15,395,396],{},"The Sky",[166,398,399],{},"Satellite, surface pressure and radar imagery",[166,401,364],{},[151,403,404,409,412],{},[166,405,406],{},[15,407,408],{},"Advisories",[166,410,411],{},"Volcanic ash, tropical cyclone and space weather",[166,413,364],{},[80,415],{"alt":416,"caption":417,"height":84,"src":418,"variant":86,"width":87},"The Weather Charts segment for EGLL: a red hazards header reading 158 active hazards - TS, VA, TC, nearest about 90 nautical miles, over a UK map with the EGLL marker and red SIGMET polygons near the Channel, a Not for navigation attribution line, links to the map key and how to read this, and a Source line naming NOAA AWC and SADIS with the fetch time","The hazards map: live SIGMETs and AIRMETs around the station - marked Not for navigation, with its sources named.","\u002Fguide-images\u002Fweather\u002Fcharts",[80,420],{"alt":421,"caption":422,"height":84,"src":423,"variant":86,"width":87},"The chart family cards below the hazards map: Significant Weather reading 15 CB, 15 turb, 16 jets for AREA C, Upper Air reading FL530 222 degrees at 21 knots minus 50 Celsius with a freezing level near 11,000 ft, The Sky with a live UK infrared satellite tile, and Advisories counting 7 tropical cyclone and 17 volcanic ash messages","The family cards each lead with their live headline - SIGWX and Upper Air are part of Pro.","\u002Fguide-images\u002Fweather\u002Fcharts-families",[80,425],{"alt":426,"caption":427,"height":84,"src":428,"variant":86,"width":87},"The Sky family detail: a region picker set to United Kingdom, a Satellite card with the latest infrared frame fetched 5 minutes ago, credited to EUMETSAT, with a note to verify timing with an official source, and the top of a Surface Pressure card based on Deutscher Wetterdienst data","The Sky: live satellite, surface pressure and radar - each frame credited and timestamped.","\u002Fguide-images\u002Fweather\u002Fchart-sky",[11,430,431,432,435],{},"Every map and chart carries the same two habits: the imagery is credited to\nits producer (NOAA AWC, SADIS, EUMETSAT, Deutscher Wetterdienst), and\nanything map-shaped is marked ",[15,433,434],{},"Not for navigation",".",[36,437,439,440],{"id":438},"winds-aloft","Winds aloft ",[441,442],"pro-badge",{},[11,444,445,448],{},[15,446,447],{},"Winds aloft"," (from the Summary segment, the Upper Air family or the foot\nof the METAR view) is the level-by-level table: direction, speed and\ntemperature from the surface to the tropopause, with a bar per level and\nthe freezing level estimated.",[80,450],{"alt":451,"caption":452,"height":84,"src":453,"variant":86,"width":87},"The Winds aloft screen for EGLL: a winds and temperatures table from FL530 down to FL100, each row with a direction arrow and degrees, a bar chart of speed in knots, and temperature - for example FL390 217 degrees at 23 knots and minus 55","Winds and temperatures aloft, level by level.","\u002Fguide-images\u002Fweather\u002Fwinds-aloft",[36,455,457,458],{"id":456},"look-back-30-days","Look back 30 days ",[441,459],{},[11,461,462,463,466],{},"Each METAR and TAF view links to its ",[15,464,465],{},"30-day history"," - the reports\narchived on your device, so you can see how the day actually developed.\nThe archives need you signed in: a free account starts a 14-day trial of\nthe full history, and after that the archives are part of Pro.",[36,468,470],{"id":469},"weather-alerts","Weather alerts",[11,472,473,476,477,485,486,485,489,492,493,496],{},[15,474,475],{},"Settings > Notifications > Weather alerts"," turns the watch-list into\npush alerts. Four alert types, each explained on its own switch: ",[15,478,479,480],{},"Below\n",[65,481,484],{"href":482,"className":483},"\u002Flearn\u002Fglossary#gt-vfr",[69],"VFR",", ",[15,487,488],{},"TAF amendments & corrections",[15,490,491],{},"Improved to VFR",", and\n",[15,494,495],{},"Personal minimum breaches"," (evaluated on your device only - your\nminimums never leave it). The screen's own caveat is the honest one to\nrepeat here: detection is not continuous or dispatch-grade monitoring, and\nmissing weather never means conditions are clear.",[80,498],{"alt":499,"caption":500,"height":84,"src":501,"variant":86,"width":87},"The Weather alerts settings screen: a master Weather alert notifications switch with a caption explaining that when on and signed in the device push token and watched airports are stored so alerts arrive with the app closed, above alert-type switches for Below VFR, TAF amendments and corrections, and Improved to VFR","The alert types - each switch says exactly what it watches and how it is delivered.","\u002Fguide-images\u002Fweather\u002Fweather-alerts",[80,503],{"alt":504,"caption":505,"height":84,"src":506,"variant":86,"width":87},"Further down Weather alerts: the Improved to VFR and Personal minimum breaches switches with their captions, a Personal minimums link for setting thresholds, a note that detection is not continuous or dispatch-grade monitoring and missing weather never means conditions are clear, and a Watched airports list with EGKK marked Station watch","The watched-airports list drives the alerts - and the screen states its limits in plain terms.","\u002Fguide-images\u002Fweather\u002Fweather-alerts-watched",[11,508,509,511],{},[441,510],{}," The free tier monitors your single highest-priority location -\nwith no setup, that is your home base. Alerting on every location you\nwatch, and per-location alert tiers, belong to Pro. Muting is never gated:\nsilencing a location is always free, and frees its slot.",[36,513,515],{"id":514},"weather-on-ipad","Weather on iPad",[11,517,518],{},"On iPad, Stations gets its own place in the side rail - the watch-list is\none tap from anywhere, with the Brief tab keeping the flight-briefing side.\nThe cards spread into the full width, raw METARs on one line.",[80,520],{"alt":521,"caption":522,"height":523,"src":524,"variant":525,"width":526},"The Stations screen on iPad: a side rail with the Stations icon active, a 4 stations watched header, and full-width station cards for EGLL, EGKK, EHAM and LFPG - each with a VMC badge, an age pill, the one-line raw METAR and its source, with the Reference only - verify officially line at the foot","Stations on iPad: its own rail destination, full-width cards, same honest anatomy.",2752,"\u002Fguide-images\u002Fweather\u002Fstations-board-ipad","ipad",2064,[36,528,530],{"id":529},"where-next","Where next",[264,532,533,540,547],{},[44,534,535,539],{},[65,536,538],{"href":537},"\u002Fguide\u002Fhome","Home"," - the home-base METAR and TAF glance cards that\nsurface this module on the dashboard.",[44,541,542,546],{},[65,543,545],{"href":544},"\u002Fguide\u002Fduty-and-ftl","Duty & FTL"," - the other half of the pre-flight\npicture: where you stand against your duty limits.",[44,548,549,553],{},[65,550,552],{"href":551},"\u002Fguide\u002Ffree-vs-pro","Free vs Pro"," - the exact line between the free\nweather surfaces and the Pro ones.",{"title":555,"searchDepth":556,"depth":556,"links":557},"",2,[558,559,560,561,562,563,564,565,566,567,568],{"id":38,"depth":556,"text":39},{"id":98,"depth":556,"text":99},{"id":139,"depth":556,"text":140},{"id":241,"depth":556,"text":242},{"id":297,"depth":556,"text":298},{"id":316,"depth":556,"text":317},{"id":438,"depth":556,"text":439},{"id":456,"depth":556,"text":457},{"id":469,"depth":556,"text":470},{"id":514,"depth":556,"text":515},{"id":529,"depth":556,"text":530},"2026-08-25",null,"Watch the airports you care about, read METARs and TAFs raw and decoded, and browse the wider weather picture - with every report attributed and aged honestly.",false,"md",{"name":575,"steps":576},"Check the weather for an airport in Pilot EFB",[577,578,579,580,581],"Open the Brief tab and switch to Stations.","Tap the plus button and choose Add a station.","Search by ICAO code, name or city, and tap the airport to watch it.","Read the station's live METAR on its card - raw text, flight rules and age.","Tap the card for the full workbench - Summary, METAR, TAF, NOTAMs and Weather Charts.",[583,584,585,586],"Weather lives in the Brief tab's Stations mode - a watch-list of airports, each carrying its live METAR, flight-rules badge and age.","Every report is raw first - the verbatim METAR or TAF sits above the decode, with its source and fetch time attributed.","Watching and reading weather is free for any number of airports; SIGWX, winds aloft, the 30-day archives and multi-airport push alerts belong to Pro.","The standing line at the foot of every weather screen - \"Reference only - verify officially.\" - is the module's framing, and it means what it says.",{},true,60,"\u002Fguide\u002Fweather","Core modules",{"title":5,"description":571},"guide\u002Fweather","9UQk0Qdgrz3YWBKDA1WKVOBMHnIR6xrh_Pc2ttueIIw",{"prev":596,"next":603,"position":607,"total":609},{"path":597,"title":598,"description":599,"section":591,"order":600,"appVersion":6,"draft":572,"minutes":601,"number":602},"\u002Fguide\u002Flogbook","Logbook","Log flights and simulator sessions, watch your totals and recency, and take your records anywhere - a personal flying record that shows its working.",50,7,"05",{"path":604,"title":213,"description":605,"section":591,"order":606,"appVersion":6,"draft":572,"minutes":607,"number":608},"\u002Fguide\u002Fnotams","Read an airport's NOTAMs raw and decoded, watch a FIR's enroute notices, map them, and get alerted to new critical ones - gaps stated honestly.",70,6,"07",17,1787929982651]