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The Met Office provides help and guidance to some of
the biggest names in global aviation.
Through our ICAO designated World
Area Forecast Centre, we provide commercial airlines
and carriers with high-level weather information for the
entire globe, including:
- upper winds and temperatures;
- significant weather (SIGWX) charts;
- operational meteorology (OPMET), TAFs, METARs and SIGMETs.
Such data are distributed through SADIS
and other commercial channels such as direct line and fax.
Beyond these Annex
3 services, enabling users to make safety-critical and
operational decisions on a daily basis, the Met Office provides
value-added services which allow airlines to improve route
planning and streamline costs.
| New Airline
Briefing Service |
Capitalising on huge improvements in weather forecasting
and IT capability over recent years, the Met Office's Airline
Briefing Service is a powerful new and affordable choice
to optimise your route planning and operational efficiency.
- Improve flight operations
- Make safety-critical decisions
- Online and easy to use
From standard WAF charts to fully interactive graphical
forecasts, our packages are competitively priced to meet
your needs. Our unique and groundbreaking graphical forecasts
within the Gold package cannot be found elsewhere.
More
about the Airline Briefing Service
| Aircraft de-icing forecast service |
This unique service offers forecasts of aircraft de-icing
conditions for airports worldwide, together with a tailored
guide to holdover times, and proactive alerts to ground
staff, enabling improved planning of de-icing operations
and reduced departure delays.
More
about the Aircraft de-icing forecast service
| Advanced
Weather Service with SITA |
Working in partnership, the Met Office and SITA are developing
a ground-breaking service for airlines. This interactive
service integrates the latest weather information with flight
routes for the most comprehensive pilot briefing.
Contact aviation@metoffice.gov.uk
for more details or see news
release.
With more than 90 years of experience in the aviation industry,
the Met Office is well equipped to provide accurate and
timely consultancy on any aspect of aviation meteorology.
- Operational weather sensitivity
- Expert witness in legal cases
- International standards and conventions such as cost
recovery
Who better to deliver comprehensive aviation meteorology
training in line with your exact needs? Training can be
conducted either at the Met
Office College or a site convenient to you.
For instance our one-day 'Flight
Planning Met.' course is designed to broaden and enhance
the flight dispatcher and planner's knowledge of aviation
weather in relation to flight planning and safety. The course
is aimed at those involved in short- and long-haul flight
planning and encompasses topics such as aviation hazards
and the interpretation of significant weather charts.
Alternatively, our self-teach, interactive Aviation
Meteorology CD-ROM, developed in conjunction with Oxford
Aviation Training, is a cost-effective training resource
and reference tool. Bulk-buy discounts and licences are
available on request.
| Climate
and historic data |
Airlines require historic information for a variety of
reasons.
- Route development and route clearance, i.e. the likelihood
of operating minima being exceeded.
- New departure or destination airport analysis, i.e.
likelihood of aircraft icing overnight, landing approach
direction and go-around probability.
- Weight and balance decision making.
- Fuel loads.
- Publication on customer-facing web sites.
We can ensure you have the best information available.
More
about climate and historic data
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