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A Wind and Temperature Aloft (FB) Chart shows the forecast wind and temperature at multiple altitude and multiple locations. Pilots and dispatchers can use the FB chart for flight planning, locating potential icing levels and jet streams. These forecasts are generated 4x daily (00Z, 06Z,…
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AIRMETs, SIGMETs, and CWAs are key in flight advisories that every pilot and dispatchers look at to see any potential dangerous area of flight. These advisories alert pilots of many potential hazardous weather such as turbulence, icing, mountain obscuration, visibility, etc. AIRMETs, SIGMETs, and CWAs…
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A PIREP (pilot report) is an in flight advisory made by pilots to inform ATC, dispatchers, and pilots about conditions in the sky. It is important for pilots to report in flight conditions such as turbulence, visibility, and especially icing because icing can only be…
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SigWx Charts (Significant Weather Prognostic Charts) are forecast charts, provided by the World Area Forecast Centres, that contain turbulence, icing, volcanic ash, thunderstorms, and high winds. These charts are mainly used for flight and en route planning by flight crews. Check today's SigWx charts here.
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A station model is a symbol used by meteorological in charts such as the Observation surface weather charts in order to give a quick understanding of surface weather (wind, temperature, sky condition, precipitation, etc) at the designated location. As you can see, a station model…
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