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Old 23rd March 2007 | 09:38
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angelacr
 
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I don't know how reliable it is for obscure airports across Europe, but it certainly gives decent data for the example you quoted.
All YAWS weather data comes from the US National Weather Service - and in my experience of running YAWS at activitae, for more than 4 years, NWS is second to none. YAWS is currently running with a 99.8% uptime.

YAWS Multi presently fetches data from server run by Aviation Digital Data Services using NWS data and accesses mainstream airport data i.e. all that data propagated across world aviation networks. If you want something a little more esoteric, especially French airfileds, such as Abbeville (LFOI) for example - which do not propagate widely, you may need to use the single lookup of YAWS original. That is coded to seek data from European sources too.

A short URL for your phone is http://yaws.mobi That will take you to the front page of YAWS Original, from where YAWS Multi, YAWS UK etc. may be selected.

Since the very complimentary article by David Broom in the PFA magazine, around Christmas, use of YAWS has risen markedly.

EICK remains the highest searched for airport - not sure why? Something to do with RyanAir perhaps?

I started YAWS for my own use as I couldn't find the kind of data I wanted from existing commercial sources and in the low bandwidth form I wanted. Sadly, I think that still holds true today.

If your phone has only a rudimentary browser but can run small Java programs I highly recommend the use of Opera Mini. It is free software.

You are welcome to use YAWS for free.
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Last edited by angelacr; 23rd March 2007 at 09:44. Reason: Added detail of Opera Mini
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