Where to find historical TAFs (Not METARs)
 

Can someone point me towards a source for historical TAF's.

I know you can find METAR's on the Weather underground website, but I would like to be able to see historical TAFs.

In particular I'm looking for the TAFs for Bratislava Airport for last Monday.

Thanks
dp

24 hours of Metar history is available on Aviation Weather >> Europe > metar taf sigmet notam winds aloft significant weather information

This site is one. Look at the way the URL is formed (it contains the airport code etc) and edit it as required.

Bluebeard, Thanks, but I need to go back to Monday, which is more than 24 hours.

IO, thanks, but as far as I can see that only has METARs. I need the TAFs. Are they available there somewhere that I've missed?

dp

I think they make sure that TAFs are removed asap so that they can't be used to show how inaccurate they were.......!!!!

BINGO ..................

Thanks very much IO ;)

Bookworm was kind enough to help me out in the mean time, but your link has been saved for future reference :ok:

If you needed them because you had flown out of there as a pilot, you would have them already as part of your pre flight preparation, otherwise why would you want them?

Niknak, for starters I don't always print the TAFs and METARs before I go out. I might check them online or on the telly. So no, I might not have the TAF at the end of my flight anymore.

But it's also very useful to discuss things that happened in the past, where the weather may have played a part. In that case you might not only be interested in the actual weather at the time of the incident/accident, but you might also be interested in the TAFs and other forecasts that were available to the pilot when he (or she) did the flight preparation and made the decision to go. Such as this: http://www.pprune.org/private-flying...k-hungary.html

Worldwide TAF and METAR data archive
 

The source I use for recalling weather reports and forcasts is Navlost.eu

Thank you IO540! Just used this to respond to an FAA inquiry.

Taf egmc 300806z 3009/3018 24005kt 0300 fg ovc001
prob30 tempo 3009/3012 2000 br sct004
becmg 3012/3015 5000 br bkn005
prob40 tempo 3015/3018 1000 bkn002=

Taf egmc 300500z 3006/3015 24005kt 0150 fg fzfg ovc001
prob30 tempo 3006/3012 2000 br sct004
becmg 3012/3015 5000 br bkn005=

Surely a decision to land or depart can be made on the current actual weather. The TAF is irrelevant and is used for future flight planning purposes.

It is a TAF and for planning, but decision to land or depart is based on actual weather and METAR.

Land or depart are also two different things. You start on METAR conditions, but it depends on companies SOP wether you are allowed to start with such TAF at your destination, especially upon discussion on prob30 sufficient or not. If you take off and prob30 does not hold, the company may have an audit discussion on their SOP parameters and the principles of flight preparation.

As always, in the end it all depends ... let us look into details, this is Southend and an early morning TAF, of which we know they are not highly reliable, and we have one of the special seaside early morning conditions. Wind 240 degrees at 5 knots will quite often blow the fg fzfg away and weather stations tend to cya, so the actual weather conditions can maybe expected better than TAFed, which is a final judgement different from pilot to pilot experience with the place. I did not look up the general weather chart for the date in question, but there may have well been patches of weather with enough holes to punch heavy iron through, hard to tell without having been there.

Does anyone know where to find historical F215 and F214 as issued by the Met Office?