The Vykruta Pilot Weather Planner

I made a handy weather planner for advance briefings. If you're briefing 3 days, 18 hours or 8 hours prior to departure, this guide will tell you exactly where you can get information from. Feel free to edit/improve. The FAA should teach it this way.

Let's say it's Wed afternoon and you're doing a Friday sunrise flight across the country. You know it's about 36 hours away. Look at the graph below and scan down. I must check:

Surface Prog Chart
Extended Convective ECFP
Winds/temps
Area forecast - close enough to be useful

Nothing else to do. Tomorrow evening, 12 hours prior, I can check a few new ones:

Low level + Mid Level SigWx
Area forecast
TAF
CIP + FIP Icing
AIRMENT + SIGMET

Just before flight, I go to the now column. Metars, radar, ceiling/vis, satellite.

The full list of services is:

Surface Prog Chart
Extended Convective Forecast Product (ECFP)
Winds / Temps
Low Level SigWx (SFC-FL240) and Mid Level SigWx (FL100-450)
CIP Freezing Level + FIP Forecast Icing Severity
Area Forecast
TAF
AIRMET
SIGMET
Collaborative Convective Forecast Product (CCFP)
National Convective Weather Forecast (NCWF)
METAR
Ceiling + Vis
PIREP
Radar / Satelite

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