Check Weather

Enroute Flight Navigation can show METAR reports and TAF forecasts from nearby airfields along your route. The data is updated frequently, provided that an internet connection is available. To check weather, open the main menu and choose the item “Weather”. The weather information comes from the “Aviation Weather Center”, a website of the US government. When you open the page for the first time, Enroute Flight Navigation asks for your permission to access that site.

Warning

The weather information shown by Enroute Flight Navigation might be outdated or otherwise wrong. Assessment of meteorological flight conditions has to be done via an officially approved source of flight weather.

As soon as weather information has been downloaded, the page will look like this.

Weather at Airfields Close to Freiburg

Weather Information

The page body displays a list of stations that are within 85nm around your current position or your intended flight route. As you can see in the picture, the following information is shown.

  • ICAO identifier for Station and Airport name

  • Distance and QUJ

  • METAR summary

The entries are classified and colored according to the “aviation flight categories” typically used in the United States. The coding scheme is explained in the table below. Note that this color coding might be different from the scheme typically used in your country. Green color does certainly not imply that it is advisable (or legal) to fly.

Category

Color

Ceiling

Visibility

low IFR

Red

<500 feet AGL

or

<1 mile

IFR

Red

500 – 1,000 feet AGL

or

1 – 3 miles

marginal VFR

Yellow

1,000 – 3,000 feet AGL

or

3 – 5 miles

VFR

Green

>3,000 feet AGL

and

> 5 miles

no data

White

–

–

–

Touch any item in the list to open dialog window with more details. The dialog window will look like this.

Detailed Weather Dialog

Detailed Weather Dialog

As you can see in the picture, the weather dialog shows the following information.

  1. Station data including bearing and distance

  2. METAR text (if available)

  3. Decoded and translated METAR text

  4. TAF text (if available)

  5. Decoded and translated TAF text

Depending on screen size, you might have to scroll down in order to read the full weather forecast.

Page Footer

The footer of the page shows the following data.

  • QNH of the closest airfield, as well as location and time of the report

  • Time of next sunset or sunrise at current location

  • Remaining time until sunset

Refresh Button

The refresh button in the title bar at the top right of the page allows checking for updates of METAR and TAF data. Enroute Flight Navigation checks for updates at regular intervals, so that there is no need to trigger an update manually. The refresh button might however be useful to force an update in setting where the device had no internet connection for a while.