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Inflight Entertainment => The missing link => Topic started by: happylanding on May 29, 2006, 12:17:32 PM

Title: weather and mac
Post by: happylanding on May 29, 2006, 12:17:32 PM

If anybody has a Mac instead of a PC, there is a small dashboard widget called "Aviation Weather" that gives real time info (METAR TAF & LONGTAF) of a lot of airports, up to four together.  :)
You can download it from apple's homepage.

Title: Re: weather and mac
Post by: Gulfstream Driver on June 25, 2006, 05:47:50 PM

What's a LONGTAF?

Title: Re: weather and mac
Post by: happylanding on June 25, 2006, 06:23:31 PM

Quote from: Gulfstream Driver on June 25, 2006, 05:47:50 PM

What's a LONGTAF?

Ohhh gosh! Don't you have it a taf for 18 hrs in the US?!? does it have another name, maybe?!?

Title: Re: weather and mac
Post by: Gulfstream Driver on June 25, 2006, 06:32:38 PM

We have METAR's, which are updated every hour, and TAF's, which are good for 24 hours and are issued every 6 hours.