Thank you for sharing.
Yes, ideally pireps should be timely. And that's what they are when we give a pirep to ATC with some encountered adverse conditions -- they can use the information instantaneously to work with the traffic. But the truth is that when we do our pre-flight briefing and we ask for pireps, we are actually getting "old" pireps. It's a lucky day if I pull out a report that is relevant to me and that was filed only 20-30 mins ago. This is why when we land and go back to our FBOs we get asked all the time, "So, how was it up there?" And skyzag.com is pretty much the tool to say 'how it was up there' to a broader audience. And if you get into a habit of leaving a pirep or two or even three (for three different points on your x-country, for example) immediately after landing, than chances are that someone may actually use it for their own pre-flight and your pireps will still be fresh enough to give more or less an accurate idea of what's going on in the sky. We've just finished a major fix on skyzag, and now after I will have worked on my lazy eights tomorrow I will land and give a few reports: One report for the climb out (it will be 1 hour old), one for the practice area (30 mins old), and one for the approach (15 mins old). Any thoughts?
