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Old 16th Mar 2006, 21:10
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New F215.....

The new 'printable' version of the F215 (which is now a .pdf) from the UK Met Office aviation website does not give any surface pressure indications. Even the normal F215 only gives a very small (admittedly quite pretty) thumbnail chart with different orientation and coverage compared to the forecast weather chart. If you try to print it out to a reasonable size, it devours most of the ink in your printer and takes forever.....

Why?

The dumbing down of weather information is bad enough on the BBC, but why on earth are aviators having to suffer in this way? Personally I haven't seen much improvement in forecast quality over the recent years; hence it would be nice just to have a decent UK surface pressure chart (as we had until earlier this week) from which to make our own deductions.
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