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:
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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