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Plain English Wx briefings

3/18/2015 9:57 PM

SP

Joined: 12/6/2010

Posts: 69

Plain English Wx briefings

Would like to see weather briefings from the flight plan page in plain English rather than coded.

Steve in Alpine, Tx

3/19/2015 10:44 AM

Jeff Clark

Joined: 9/20/2012

Posts: 1254

Re: Plain English Wx briefings

+1; and a useable winds aloft chart like the one on the airport weather screen.

Jeff Nokomis Clark, Mooney M20G, iFly app on ASUS ZenPad Z8s, ASUS ZenFone AR, ASUS Windows 10 tablet, Stratux ADS-B w AHRS

3/19/2015 11:01 AM

Tinker

Joined: 2/9/2014

Posts: 109

Re: Plain English Wx briefings

Maybe a year ago I suggested to Shane that he look at the WX presentations at weathermeister.com and steal whatever ideas he could. Weathermeister is the only web site that gets subscription money from me. Among many other things, I like the the (plain Englist) information is color coded, so issues really jump out at you. This is true of METARs, TAFs, PIREPs, ... really everything.

Shane seemed receptive, so I'm hoping that they have something in the pipeline. (Shane?)

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3/19/2015 11:42 AM

Shane

Joined: 4/21/2010

Posts: 1709

Re: Plain English Wx briefings

Tinker,

It's on our wishlist. I think it is a nice clean presentation approach and it's in the hands of our development team. Some of this has to do the fact that the weather briefing is coming directly from Lockheed Martin. We would have to reformat that data on the fly. This is something I've asked more info about. I'm sure it can be done, but not currently a top priority tweak.

Shane Woodson
Vice President | Adventure Pilot LLC.

9/11/2015 10:30 AM

Dave

Joined: 5/30/2015

Posts: 61

Re: Plain English Wx briefings

Any update on Plain Language?

Lockheed actually does the translation if one get's the briefing at 1800wxbrief so I would think they could do the translation before transmitting to iFly?

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