Originally Posted by
pba_target
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!
Just before I retired the airport I was working at brought in Automet instead of human observers. One morning I arrived at work to find the early morning charter from TFS which I had turned out early for, had diverted to NEW due to the Automet reporting fog below minimums.. The "fog" was about 1 to 2 feet deep with not a cloud in the sky. It's not only apps that give partial or wrong information.