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Technical Support / Re: TAF/METARs in Skydemon using ATOM

« on: June 08, 2021, 07:19:36 pm »

Useful inputs from everyone, thanks. Wasn’t aware of the limitations of the GDL90 format; I posed the same question the SD team and their response was:

“This is really a question for PilotAware.  I believe they would need to switch to using the GDL90 protocol in order to be able to send this kind of weather data to apps like SkyDemon, which they may be reluctant to do.  It's not a possibility with their existing FLARM-based connection as far as we know.”

It’s personally can’t a reason why SD can’t just look into creating a script to look at PAWs browser page and read the TAF/METARS there.

I can understand that it wouldn’t be a feature for everyone, and I certainly wouldn’t give up any of PAW’s functionality for it - but if it was able to implemented without any degradation in functionality the for me, it would be of value.

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Technical Support / TAF/METARs in Skydemon using ATOM

« on: June 06, 2021, 03:10:04 pm »

Afternoon all,

I recently spoke to Lee (and the Skyemon Team) about integrating weather (TAF/METAR) information from the ATOM GRID network with Skydemon; i.e when connected to an ATOM ground station, any updated TAFs/METARs (that would usually be visible on the PAW browser page) are automatically pushed and decoded by Skydemon.

Lee asked me to post it here to see what the interest levels were like. From my (very limited) understating, the data may have to be re-written in the GDL-90 format which Lee said was possible but wanted to gauge interest first. Another benefit may be that, in the GDL-90 format, they're compatible with the likes of Forflight & Garmin Pilot (?)

Feedback, thoughts, ideas and any +1s welcome below for Lee and his team. This could be the closest thing we get to a very limited version of FIS-B in the UK, for the time being.