You can search for an airport using its ICAO code (e.g.
You can use two fingers to zoom in and out on this screen as well.Į) NOTAM - from the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO). Tap on a METAR to bring up the detailed version and to view the raw data.ĭ) Forecasts - these are the new Graphical Area Forecasts from BOM. Only the major airports are on NOAA but you also get Lat, Long, Elevation and Altimeter.
You get slightly different data depending on the source, but there are a lot more sites using BOM. In the Settings Tab you can select whether this data comes from BOM or NOAA (default is BOM). You can add additional airports using the + button (top right). Display includes wind direction and speed, cloud cover, visibility, temperature and QNH. You can use two fingers to zoom in and out of the PDF's on this screen.Ĭ) METAR/TAF - Are decoded for a selected list of airports. It is derived from the Aviation Weather Packages on the BOM web site.ī) AIRMET/SIGMET - The latest graphical and text based versions are provided (from the BOM). The first tab of VAF focusses on aviation specific information and includes:Ī) Aviation Briefs which are available for 10 regions in Australia. Visual Aircraft Forecasts for Australia aggregates data from the Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BOM), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and the Open Weather Map organisation. Visual Aircraft Forecasts (VAF) for Australia reduces the complexity of aviation weather forecasting by providing graphical representations of the weather data provided by the various authorities. Sick of trying to decode unintelligible aviation weather information?
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