The National Weather Service Modernization Committee has examined present capabilities and practices for providing weather information to aviation and reviewed the plans of both the National Weather Service (NWS) and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for taking advantage of new concepts and technologies in order to improve aviation weather information. Over the next decade, improvements will arise as a result of several factors: information content, presentation format, and availability. Three operational benefits will result from the improved and integrated NWS and FAA system. First, pilots, controllers, and traffic managers will have access to more accurate, higher-resolution analyses and forecasts, some of them tailored to be flight and route specific. Second, all involved will be using a common family of impact variables and decision aids. Third, controllers will be relieved of the duty of being weather information conduits; they and the pilots would have the same integrated information on their displays and each would know what the other was seing. The overall result of the NWS and FAA modernizations will be an aviation system with significantly improved safety, efficiency, and capacity.


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    Title :

    Toward a New National Weather Service: Weather for Those Who Fly


    Publication date :

    1994


    Size :

    114 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English