Hi,

 

I saw once a pilot with an app for his smartphone where you could put in those numbers from the metar and it would tell you the icy conditions for that runway.

 

Anyone who knows it ?

 

for instance R04L/420161

 

Thanks

 

Michael Moe

 

 

Anyone who knows it ?

 

I don't know about an app, but I know aviationweather.gov has a "decoded" function for METAR, and it will pull most major international fields (and all domestic).

 

Example:

http://www.aviationweather.gov/metar/data?ids=kiad&format=decoded&date=0&hours=0

 

Here's a good site for figuring it out, and you could easily write up your own "app" (even if you don't know code):

http://www.skybrary.aero/index.php/Meteorological_Terminal_Air_Report_(METAR)

 

...and here's one way to accomplish having an "app" without code:

http://kpilot13.blogspot.com/2013/04/make-yourself-app-without-learning-code.html

Thanks Kyle,

 

will look into that , 

 

Happy new year

 

Michael Moe

I use http://metaf2xml.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/metaf.pl?lang=en to decode METARs and TAFs that I don't understand. It works pretty good. It has the option to load a METAR or TAF by entering the ICAO of the airport, but that doesn't load the current METAR/TAF. Just copy past the METAR/TAF.

I use example one in scandinivan13 post but if I run across some odd junk at the end of a METAR that doesn't make sense I use this site - http://www.met.tamu.edu/class/metar/quick-metar.html.