New graphics enhancements have debuted on 1800WxBrief.com, designed to give pilots access to enhanced weather graphics that offer clearer and more comprehensive data to support flight planning and decision-making, according to FAA officials.
Weather
Questions from the Cockpit: Freezing follies
I knew that, with heat, humidity “makes it worse.” A dry 95℉ in the Western deserts feels altogether different than a humid 95℉ in the South. But I didn’t make the mental connection that the same phenomenon might exist at the other end of the thermometer.
The day the sky fell
When Hurricane Helene hit western North Carolina, airports along the storm’s path were flooded, airplanes were destroyed, and the clean-up process continues months after the storm.
Slipping the surly bonds of ice
When Lancair pilot Matt Johnson was told to descend by ATC, he complied, then found his airplane was picking up ice. He remembers thinking about “how insane it was that I descended into ice-filled clouds from blue sky, no traffic within a hundred miles of me, just because some guy told me to.”
Preflight planning gets safety boost with FAA weather cams
The FAA provides more than 600 camera sites throughout the United States with 230 FAA sites in Alaska. Another estimated 360 cameras operate in North America as third-party systems, such as those installed by NAVCanada and the states of Colorado and Montana. The camera images are updated every 10 minutes to give pilots a view of the latest weather.
FAA weather cameras go live in Maine
The FAA is now hosting 18 camera sites in Maine on its Weather Camera website, with plans to add more sites through 2023.
General aviation airports at risk from climate change
Scientists at the University of California-Berkeley found that 39 out of 43 coastal airports in California have assets exposed to projected flooding that could disrupt their operations in the next 20 to 40 years, ranging from runways to navigational aids.
Expounding on the expansion of the FAA’s weather cameras
The webinar will highlight the FAA’s plans to expand the weather camera network into more locations in the United States, with information on how you can provide input directly to the FAA on where you would like a weather camera installed.
Not that ignorant after all
The EFB marketplace just makes it far easier to gather preflight information and engage with it.