One click: Metar decode, airport information and rwy in use!

[Evandro Bastos 1447710]

Metar decoding and runway information in use!

All with one click!

 

Available free at https://www.webatis.xyz/

 

Demo usage: https://youtu.be/WLXVlsEODek

 

Transition altitude and transition level available only at main Brazilian airports.

It is still a beta version and available.

In case of errors found, contact the script developer at [email protected]

 

[Andreas Fuchs]

Just tried it with EDDF/Frankfurt and there were no details.

[Evandro Bastos 1447710]

Hello!

Please try again. I have tried the EDDF airport and the result is below

 

[Andreas Fuchs]

Yeah, but the "runway in use" is not correct. The current VATSIM-ATIS of EDDF reads

FRANKFURT INFORMATION Y MET REPORT TIME 1920

EXPECT ILS APPROACH RUNWAY 25R OR 25L RUNWAYS IN USE 18 25C

25L AND 25R TRL 70 ATTENTION!

DEPARTURE FREQUENCY FOR ALL DEPARTING AIRCRAFT IS LANGEN RADAR

ON FREQUENCY 127.720 WIND 290 DEGREES 3 KNOTS

VARIABLE BETWEEN 230 AND 340 DEGREES CAVOK TEMPERATURE

14 DEW POINT 5 QNH 1013 TREND NOSIG FRANKFURT

INFORMATION Y OUT

[Evandro Bastos 1447710]

Hello!!

Thanks!

There are an erro to locate the major runway. Now it is correct.

The script show the one better runway calculated beetwen major runways.

[nebojsa milosavljevic]

Just tried CYYZ

Day information 02 10: 27z

Airport Runway in use 23

Elevation 569ft

wind direction 150, intensity 4kt

Clouds: Cloudy to 61 meters

visibility 1207 meters

Temperature 7 ° C

Humidity 93%

Set altimeter 30.11

 

The actual rwy in use is 05,06L,06R as per nav canada

 

nebojsa

[Evandro Bastos 1447710]

Just tried CYYZ

Day information 02 10: 27z

Airport Runway in use 23

Elevation 569ft

wind direction 150, intensity 4kt

Clouds: Cloudy to 61 meters

visibility 1207 meters

Temperature 7 ° C

Humidity 93%

Set altimeter 30.11

 

The actual rwy in use is 05,06L,06R as per nav canada

 

nebojsa

 

Hello!

The script calculates the better runway for departure or landing, for the for longest runway.

For CYYZ, and 150 degrees for wind, the better direction is 23/24R/24L. This calculation consider the 10w degrees for magnetic declination of CYYZ.

 

For this beta version, we consider only the longest runway. Soon, I will complete the script for other runways to be considereded.

 

[EDIT] I listened CYYZ atis from liveatc. They inform wind for 120 degress, different for 150 for NOAA or VATSIM metar, thats inform 150 degrees. This makes the difference between runway in use.

 

Thanks.

[Andreas Fuchs]

Hi Evandro,

 

as per e-mail by Mike, this does not work in all places. There are quite a few airports that operate a "preferential runway system" that will allow up to 5 knots of tailwind, until a certain runway will not be used anymore.

[Evandro Bastos 1447710]

Hi Evandro,

 

as per e-mail by Mike, this does not work in all places. There are quite a few airports that operate a "preferential runway system" that will allow up to 5 knots of tailwind, until a certain runway will not be used anymore.

 

 

Hello Andreas,

 

This information is very important, and do not considered in calculations.

 

Do we have the list of this airports?

 

Thnaks

[Evandro Bastos 1447710]

I made some corrections and new implementations about airport runway informations.

[Andreas Fuchs]

This information is very important, and do not considered in calculations.

 

Do we have the list of this airports?

I am not aware of a list, because there's nobody who maintains such a list. The source of all information is the AIP of each country and the contained information for each specific airport.

[Robert Shearman Jr]

At the end of the day, this is a great tool for getting a runway *recommendation* but it still doesn't substitute for the runway [Mod - Happy Thoughts]ignment configuration that an active, online VATSIM controller will choose to use, based on the SOP at that airport -- which considers not just wind and runway length, but noise abatement, traffic flow at nearby satellite fields, etcetera. My fear is that it will be another in the ever-growing [Mod - Happy Thoughts]nal of tools for pilots to use to argue with the virtual controllers over which runways should be in use at any given time. I hope that instead of listing the "runway in use" it can list the "recommended runway" with a disclaimer along the lines of "Local SOP may consider factors not used in this recommendation. Defer to active runways chosen by online VATSIM controllers."

[Andreas Fuchs]

What VATSIM needs is a fully integrated system and database. No more local homepages of ARTCCs and VACCs, but everyone uses a set of given layouts and directly feeds into VATSIM's database. This way it would be really easy to define things like "preferential runway rules" worldwide and then have some script/function at VATSIM's server make sound recommendations for the runway in use. These could also be read out by tools such as VatSpy, Qutescoop, Accomeap, because it would be part of the official data-file provided by VATSIM.

[Robert Shearman Jr]

I hope that instead of listing the "runway in use" it can list the "recommended runway" with a disclaimer along the lines of "Local SOP may consider factors not used in this recommendation. Defer to active runways chosen by online VATSIM controllers."

It looks like such a disclaimer / explanation has been added. Thank you for that.

[Evandro Bastos 1447710]

At the end of the day, this is a great tool for getting a runway *recommendation* but it still doesn't substitute for the runway [Mod - Happy Thoughts]ignment configuration that an active, online VATSIM controller will choose to use, based on the SOP at that airport -- which considers not just wind and runway length, but noise abatement, traffic flow at nearby satellite fields, etcetera. My fear is that it will be another in the ever-growing [Mod - Happy Thoughts]nal of tools for pilots to use to argue with the virtual controllers over which runways should be in use at any given time. I hope that instead of listing the "runway in use" it can list the "recommended runway" with a disclaimer along the lines of "Local SOP may consider factors not used in this recommendation. Defer to active runways chosen by online VATSIM controllers."

 

 

Hello!

You are right! So, I change the script, for information of all runways, for pilot choose. The wind is not the only variable for choosing runway.

 

Thanks

[Evandro Bastos 1447710]

Hello!

I made new modifications on this tool.

Now we have all runways, with graphics, and an arrow to indicate the wind direction for each runway.

 

 

A video for help, are available here.

 

Thanks all for suggestions.

[Andreas Fuchs]

Nice, keep on going!

[Evandro Bastos 1447710]

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