Exactly, what happened to the tafs?????
They are easy enough to read and understand, but now this 30 hour stuff. Don't know about that. I'm a pilot myself but work as a flight planning officer and I just don't think the wx can really be done as accurately that far in advance. The met guys will put a shed load of probable stuff in the tafs to cover themselves and update them when something new comes up.
For flight planning purposes, this new system can be an issue for aerodromes that don't produce long tafs. Also, I can see airlines taking more fuel on flights due wx forecasts than they would normally do. Not good considering the price of fuel. We as pilots and dispatchers need to think a bit more outside the box with this one and use our wx charts and other available resources to form a clearer picture.
Personally, I miss the short tafs.
