Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler - Recommendation on Pilot Center tools

Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler | Airline Operations | Recommendation on Pilot Center tools

DVA2887
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31 legs, 49.6 hours event
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Posted onPost created on March 08 2006 22:22 ET by Andrew Vane

A box for entering an airport code for a current METAR would be helpful (unless my own stupidity is keeping me from seeing one that's already present on this web site).

Andrew Vane (DVA2887)

DVA1933
Senior Captain, B727-200

Joined on September 19 2004
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Monterrey, NL Mexico

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72 legs, 132.3 hours online
255 legs, 668.3 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on March 08 2006 22:23 ET by David Eugenio Gomez

aahahah ... well we all learn by making mistakes ...

Go to pilot center, then scroll down to Airport Information and in the drop down box select METAR report, and type in the code of the airport smile

Posted onPost created on March 08 2006 22:27 ET by David Eugenio Gomez

hhmm ... the metar request thing in the pilot center is not working for me right now ... oops scared

DVA2634
Captain, B777-200

Joined on October 10 2005

Midwestern United States

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20 legs, 52.8 hours online
33 legs, 148.0 hours ACARS
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95 legs, 343.5 hours total

Posted onPost created on March 08 2006 22:29 ET by Tom Meyer

Works fine for me Eugenio. Sure it wasn't just the airport you tried?

Tom Meyer

Captain, B777-200

Posted onPost created on March 08 2006 22:31 ET by David Eugenio Gomez

hhmm nope, I tried several codes =S

David Eugenio Gomez (DVA1933)

DVA2253
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299 legs, 485.1 hours ACARS

Posted onPost created on March 08 2006 22:42 ET by George Lewis

Well, it's a link to the NOAA site, so if it's not working, their site has an issue with your ISP or something...

Try this site Dave - same place http://weather.noaa.gov/weather/metar.shtml

George Lewis (DVA2253)

Posted onPost created on March 08 2006 22:44 ET by David Eugenio Gomez

When i go directly to that link and type the airport code there, it will show the metar.
When i try to get the metar directly from DVA pilot center, it will say the code is wrong and wont show any metar

Intereseting ... thansk anyway George, eitherway I use AS6 or AirNav for metars.

David Eugenio Gomez (DVA1933)

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Posted onPost created on March 09 2006 08:11 ET by Brittany Sventon

This is what I use.

http://adds.aviationweather.gov/tafs/

http://adds.aviationweather.gov/airmets/

Brittany Sventon (DVA238)

DVA2086
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Sharpsburg, GA USA

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505 legs, 1,417.9 hours online
418 legs, 1,380.2 hours ACARS
63 legs, 196.8 hours event

Posted onPost created on March 09 2006 08:15 ET by Chris Williams

I created a little stand alone program that retrieves the metar and displays it.

A screenshot is here: http://designmojo.com/images/newjpw.jpg

You can download it here: http://designmojo.com/site/applications (bottom of the page)

Chris Williams

Senior Captain, B767-300

Posted onPost created on March 09 2006 08:55 ET by Andrew Vane

Thanks for all the responses. Those tools look great Chris. I already downloaded them. I'll make good use of them.

Only one more flight to reach my first 10!!!!!

Andrew Vane (DVA2887)

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