Robin Hood Airport

[Gr@h@m]

In Charts & Data, Current Weather, there seems to be most UK airports listed. Could Robin Hood Airport, Doncaster and Sheffield, be included, please.

[Paul]

Hi graham, thats the new one isn't it.. I can add it, but only if I can find out the Metar code for it (starts eg__) do you know it?

[Nabraxas]

The ICAO code for Doncaster is EGCN

[Paul]

Thanks Ash, will get that added soon

[Gr@h@m]

Hi graham, thats the new one isn't it.. I can add it, but only if I can find out the Metar code for it (starts eg__) do you know it?

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Thanks Paul. I'm afraid I don't know what a Metar code is :-)

I could ring and ask them.

[Gr@h@m]

By gum, things happen fast on here!

[Paul]

Lol, welcome aboard by the way graham

Give me 24-48 hrs to get it on the site, so fingers crossed it'll be there by the weekend

[Mistral 38]

Well done graham for bringing the topic of Robin Hood Airport up, i live just 14 miles from the airport and it would be interesting to see how conditions vary over that distance.

[Gr@h@m]

Mistral 38, thanks. I know Rotherham very well. I have added my location to my profile.

[johnholmes]

hi Mistral

look at my web site its about 3 miles from the runway!

I have given the ICAO code sometime ago but to repeat its EGCN

regards

John

[Mistral 38]

HI Graham and john, Graham I'm also new on the boards but its nice to have someone on who lives to my SSw . Thats where all our weather usually comes from so owt of interest in the future you can let me know prior.

Regards.

Hi john just Gonna have a look at your site now.

[Mistral 38]

Graham that is absoloutley fantastic , its a thing i can only dream about. All i have is a remote sensor hanging out of a window on a North facing wall. Its about 6ft off the ground, it relays temperature to my £50 indoorweather station.

God im so envious.

I'll be clicking on your site many times now to see the variations

regards .

[johnholmes]

ermm,

Graham,

is that who you mean??

[pottyprof]

Hi Graham

*waves from across the pond*

and Mistral

*waves from over the hill*

Have to agree it would be nice to see the changes over distance.. thanks for that Paul..

Johns site is great for getting an idea as to whats happening around the area and it always seems to be online... thanks for that John

With the airport and Johns station being so close it will be interesting to see how things change during thunderstorms between the locations..

[Gr@h@m]

I would love to know how the Metar system works. I assume the data is gathered by the airports' weather stations and then relayed to a central point. Is this done by land line?

Then it must be transmitted to interested parties, ie. incoming aircraft. Does the pilot/autopilot have to select the correct data?

How is it received by others, eg. Net-Weather?

[Nabraxas]

Metar reports are generated (automatically I believe unless there's a problem with a runway, etc) by airports all across the world.

The latest report for East Midlands Airport is this:

EGNX 130850Z 06017KT 020V080 9999 BKN028 10/04 Q1023

What this shows is

EGNX = ICAO code for East Midlands Airport

130850Z = 13th day of the month + 08:50 Zulu hours

06017KT= Wind Direction 060degrees, speed 17knots

020V080 = Wind direction variable between 020degrees and 080degrees

9999 = Visibility is 10km or more

BKN028 = Broken cloud at 2,800ft

10/04 = Temperature is 10c and dewpoint is 4c

Q1023 = QNH, Pressure is 1023hPa

All of this information is gathered by the airport and the computer automatically generates what's known as ATIS (Automatic Terminal Information Service), this is an automatic reading of the report in human form (Sounds a bit like the speech thing on your computer) which is then transmitted constantly, 24/7, on a certain frequency.

When the aircraft are taking off or landing they can tune to this frequency and get the latest weather information for the airport.

In gusty conditions Air Traffic Control will give updates on the surface wind speed/direction due to the risk of windsheer, so they'll usually keep the pilot up to date with what the wind's doing on the ground.

As for how Net-weather get it, I imagine they're using Metar.pl which is a piece of software written in Perl which gathers all of the Metar information from every airport which uses Metar from the program maker and then changes it into readable form; such as I did above.

Hope this helps.

[Gr@h@m]

Anything to report yet, Paul?

[Karl]

Hi,

Just found this thread and had a weew fiddle.

Unfortunately this icao code is not being picked up on the server we get our data from.

zilch I'm afraid.

[Rollo]

Dull and overcast,light to moderate rain falling with a SE breeze,temperature 8.7c,humidity 96%,barometer 1008 mb and falling.

[Gr@h@m]

mr murphy moo, thanks for the update.

[Gr@h@m]

Rollo, thanks for the weather in Ponteland.

[johnholmes]

hi

For those wanting to know the weather in south Yorks/north Notts area, apart from my own excellent site of course!

The airport at Doncaster is now on the list with this site, I got an e mail from Dave a short time ago;

http://www.xcweather.co.uk/

regards

John

[The PIT]

And a even better site for Sheffield can be found in my sig.

Nice to see Doncaster on the list.

[johnholmes]

cheers PIT, how is the new weather station?

regards

John

[The PIT]

cheers PIT, how is the new weather station?

regards

John

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