Originally Posted by
ShyTorque
OK, I've now got it!
So it doesn't actually matter a jot if the App is CAA approved or not!
As the saying goes, forget all after "Good Morning!"
Noting the OP doesn't care about the below:
. For what it's worth, there's quite a good UK incident report of a VERY expensive aircraft diverting because an app was used to get the (not quite latest) TAF and metar, but it didn't pick up the amended taf including the fog... Awks..
If you're using something "approved" you'll know about it because it'll either be a) provided by an official forecasting organisation (MOMIDS is a good example for UK mil) or b) it'll cost someone a lot more than 5 quid on the app store. Simply promising to faithfully reproduce the FAA/CAA/whoever published tafs and metars doesn't quite cut it - there's a fairly healthy data management process to go through to prove you'll always have the latest data, always faithfully display it and always tell someone when you're broken. Pretty much every site you see says something like 'not to be relied upon" somewhere in the small print. Doesn't mean they're not good, just they can't promise that they are!