Eagleeye 0 #1 July 14, 2009 Where does one go to get current ceiling height information for their DZ location? (website) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
hchunter614 0 #2 July 14, 2009 Not sure about ceiling but usairnet.com gives the bases. www.usairnet.com Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
grannyinthesky 0 #3 July 14, 2009 QuoteWhere does one go to get current ceiling height information for their DZ location? (website) You can call the local AWOS. Even our pilots call that here."safety first... and What the hell..... safety second, Too!!! " ~~jmy POPS #10490 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
howardwhite 6 #4 July 14, 2009 If the ceiling info for Everett is close enough for you at Snohomish, searching for METAR KPAE will give you several sources. USAIRNet is helpful, but it's a forecast, not a report. HW Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
NWFlyer 2 #5 July 14, 2009 QuoteQuoteWhere does one go to get current ceiling height information for their DZ location? (website) You can call the local AWOS. Even our pilots call that here. Here's the website that has all the available AWOS/ASOS numbers: http://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/weather/asos/"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." -P.J. O'Rourke Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gravitysurfer 0 #6 July 14, 2009 Not really 'current' but updated hourly. http://www.weather.gov/data/obhistory/KMTC.html aloha. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
diablopilot 2 #7 July 14, 2009 QuoteQuoteQuoteWhere does one go to get current ceiling height information for their DZ location? (website) You can call the local AWOS. Even our pilots call that here. Here's the website that has all the available AWOS/ASOS numbers: http://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/weather/asos/ A much easier to use website with more information.... www.airnav.com---------------------------------------------- You're not as good as you think you are. Seriously. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SansSuit 1 #8 July 15, 2009 QuoteA much easier to use website with more information.... www.airnav.com Question: Howcomesit that parachuting isn't listed on the page for airport 57C ? There has been skydiving at this airport for over 40 years. Infinitely more skydiving than the ultralights that are listed. How does one get this added? One would think this would be important information to pilots about the airport. Thanks.Peace, -Dawson. http://www.SansSuit.com The Society for the Advancement of Naked Skydiving Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Vanderhoof1 0 #9 July 15, 2009 http://adds.aviationweather.noaa.gov/metars/ You may want to select "translated" metars unless you're up on pilot-speak. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Fast 0 #10 July 15, 2009 QuoteQuoteA much easier to use website with more information.... www.airnav.com Question: Howcomesit that parachuting isn't listed on the page for airport 57C ? There has been skydiving at this airport for over 40 years. Infinitely more skydiving than the ultralights that are listed. How does one get this added? One would think this would be important information to pilots about the airport. Thanks. YouThe airport manager needs to contact the FAA to get anything changed on that page. I was looking into that myself. Airnav pulls that information from an FAA database.~D Where troubles melt like lemon drops Away above the chimney tops That's where you'll find me. Swooping is taking one last poke at the bear before escaping it's cave - davelepka Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
LyraM45 0 #11 July 15, 2009 Most airports with identifiers like 57c are not listed on websites reporting cigs (or any kind of metar ob). Most of those airports are not equipped with ASOS equipment to take the reading every hour, and nor are there enough trained observers to go out and take a reading each hour to report it for each little pipsqueak airfield around. Your best bet is to find out what the nearest reporting field is, which will probably have a 3 or 4 letter identifier, and either go off of that or extrapolate between two stations surrounding your DZ, etc.Apologies for the spelling (and grammar).... I got a B.S, not a B.A. :) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Fast 0 #12 July 15, 2009 QuoteMost airports with identifiers like 57c are not listed on websites reporting cigs (or any kind of metar ob). Most of those airports are not equipped with ASOS equipment to take the reading every hour, and nor are there enough trained observers to go out and take a reading each hour to report it for each little pipsqueak airfield around. Your best bet is to find out what the nearest reporting field is, which will probably have a 3 or 4 letter identifier, and either go off of that or extrapolate between two stations surrounding your DZ, etc. Are you responding to me? Or just cause i was last in the thread? I'm well aware of all this information and uh, don't call my airport pipsqueak!~D Where troubles melt like lemon drops Away above the chimney tops That's where you'll find me. Swooping is taking one last poke at the bear before escaping it's cave - davelepka Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Eagleeye 0 #13 July 17, 2009 Thanks for the posts. I found http://adds.aviationweather.noaa.gov/metars/ ,using the TRANSLATE option, to be the easiest to read since I do not know the pilot terminology / script. Thank you Vanderhoof1 and others. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rlucus 0 #14 July 17, 2009 QuoteThanks for the posts. I found http://adds.aviationweather.noaa.gov/metars/ ,using the TRANSLATE option, to be the easiest to read since I do not know the pilot terminology / script. Thank you Vanderhoof1 and others. METAR is actually not hard to read at all Weather Underground posts the METAR right under the current conditions along with a quick FAQ for understanding it. I find this the easiest way to find the cloud levels. http://www.wunderground.com/metarFAQ.asp Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Eagleeye 0 #15 July 18, 2009 Very nice! Thanks RLUCUS. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gawain 0 #16 July 18, 2009 Quote Quote A much easier to use website with more information.... www.airnav.com Question: Howcomesit that parachuting isn't listed on the page for airport 57C ? There has been skydiving at this airport for over 40 years. Infinitely more skydiving than the ultralights that are listed. How does one get this added? One would think this would be important information to pilots about the airport. Thanks. If you look at the air chart, parachuting is noted on the sectional. Input 57C here at: skyvector.com You'll see a nice big parachute next to the airfield. So I try and I scream and I beg and I sigh Just to prove I'm alive, and it's alright 'Cause tonight there's a way I'll make light of my treacherous life Make light! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
LyraM45 0 #17 July 18, 2009 Wasn't responding directly to you... just in general to the thread and your post was the last one I hit respon on. Sorry! I'm so used to forecasting for large airports all over the world, so most of the municipal airfields are 'pipsqueak' to me... even my own dz! Apologies for the spelling (and grammar).... I got a B.S, not a B.A. :) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
