Meteorological Briefing Workshop

Group "Airline Operations Think Tank"

‘’Pre-flight preparation is an essential preliminary to all flights. Usually, it comprises the following five stages, although stages 1. and 2. may be interchanged:

1.AIS (aeronautical information ) briefing

2.Meteorological Briefing

3.Route Selection

4.Chart Preparation

5.Flight Plan Preparation

For this first event, let’s focus on Meteorological Briefing, which is key in a flight preparation:

Meteorological briefing involves determining forecast and actual weather conditions for the route planned and for selected airfields along the route.

En-route weather comprises forecast winds and temperatures at cruising levels along the route together with forecasts of en-route weather conditions, especially cloud conditions and any associated turbulence and/or icing. This information is depicted on special charts. Airfield weather reports may be either actual reports (METAR) or forecast conditions (TAF). METARs are issued at regular intervals; when a significant change to conditions occurs before the next METAR is due, a special report (SPECI) is issued. In the interests of brevity and clarity, written METARs, SPECIs and TAFs always follow the same format and employ simple self-evident codes

We will review together existing tools, and exchange on 48H weather forecast....and will review how to use these data for daily operations’’