Many new airline pilot applicants struggle with decoding METAR weather reports, despite their critical importance for making go/no-go decisions in marginal weather. METARs follow a standardized ...

Like any self respecting nerd, one of the first stops over my morning coffee is xkcd a webcomic created in 2005. Author, Randall Munroe, describes it as "a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and ...

In the coded "language" of weather observations called METARs (a acronym of the French MÉTéorologique Aviation Régulière, often translated into English as Meteorological Terminal Aviation Routine ...

Visual confirmation in flight planning plays a critical role when automated systems are ‘creatively optimistic.' ...