metar

[belk78]

Quick question. A few days ago, a RYR coming from Morocco to France, overflying the south coast of Spain, asks for the last weather information of EBCI. He seemed very surprised, and by his response, not very delighted, when I told him I only have access to the weather information of Spanish airports. Is it the same in the rest of Europe or just down here?

[161R]

If you have internet access


ADDS - METARS form results (http://aviationweather.gov/adds/metars/?station_ids=EBCI&std_trans=standard&chk_metars=on&hoursStr=most+recent+only&submitmet=Submit)

gives you

Aviation Digital Data Service (ADDS)
Output produced by METARs form (1028 UTC 17 January 2013)
found at ADDS - METARs (http://aviationweather.gov/adds/metars/)


EBCI 171020Z 08005KT 050V120 1400 R25/0800V1300U BR FEW002 BKN004 M07/M08 Q1018 R25/450173 TEMPO 1200 BKN002

[ron83]

We have access to main airports in neighbouring countries.

[Daermon ATC]

Thanks for the answer, 161R.
However I bellieve Belk78's question was aimed more at the responsibility for that information.

In Spain we can access all spanish metar's from our screens. This information is provided by a spanish government agency (Aemet) who is liable for its accuracy. If we provide information from any other source, we can not guarantee that it is correct (neither is the case for aemet who has had a less-than-glowing reputation for a while and then has had some heavy cost-reductions... which contrary to government's propaganda have always an impact on quality).

I suppose that Belk's question was more or less on the possibility you have via your own company's control application to get other metars.

In any case we can provide the information from the web or any other source adding that we can not guarantee the accuracy of that information.

[Ninja Controller]

Your supervisor could have called the appropriate controlling authority to obtain an accurate METAR.

[chevvron]

Course there is this cunning little thing called VOLMET.........

[Spitoon]

It's a good few years since I was operational but back then if a pilot wanted wx info I could either phone the airport/centre or query it from a couple of data banks (in Belgium and Austria as I recall) on the AFTN. Either way only took a few seconds.

[reportyourlevel]

Yep, all you have to is send an RQM over the AFTN to one of three databases; see here (http://www.paris.icao.int/documents_open/download.php?maincategory=48&subcategory=87&file=APPENDIX_A_ICAO_DMG_Interface_Control_Document_V2-5.pdf).

[doc_exe]

we have a online database for all airports worldwide

[fisbangwollop]

At Scottish Information we quite often get calls from RYR and other operators asking for European and in some cases American weathers ( ETOPS).... We have on the sector links to all aviation met data we are likely to need and can call up the data within seconds.....Its nice to be able to help, not only that but calling on the Info frequency stops you blocking valueable R/T time on a busy control frequency. :cool:

[LEGAL TENDER]

plenty of smartphone apps can give you METARs and TAF from pretty much anywhere in the world.