About us

An independent publication about aviation weather — we explain the reports, we never issue them.

We publish guides about aviation weather: how to decode a METAR and a TAF, what icing, convection, turbulence and windshear actually do to an aircraft, how the hazards differ from one region of the world to another, and how a forecast turns into a flight-planning decision. Every guide is researched and written by our editorial team, reviewed on a schedule, and published with the date of its last review — including when the review changed nothing.

Where our numbers come from. Aviation weather is one of the few subjects where the thresholds are written down and public. Report format follows ICAO Annex 3 and WMO No. 306. Flight categories — VFR, MVFR, IFR, LIFR — follow the definitions used by the United States National Weather Service. Regional detail comes from the national meteorological service that serves that airspace, and we link each one on the relevant region page. Where a figure is an operating convention rather than a published rule, we say so in the sentence.

What the browser tools do. Our METAR decoder runs entirely in your browser. The report you paste is parsed on your device and never sent anywhere, because there is no reason for it to be: decoding is a purely mechanical transformation and a round trip would only add a privacy question we would rather not have.

How we pay for it. We build websites and browser tools for aviation businesses — flight schools, charter operators, drone companies. That work is completely separate from the editorial side, and no client is named in a guide.

What we do not do. We do not issue forecasts, relay live observations, or tell anyone whether a flight should go. The pilot in command is the sole authority for that decision, and it has to be made on an official briefing.

Corrections. If something here is wrong or out of date, write to us and we will fix it and re-date the guide. Corrections are made in the text, not quietly.

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Last updated 2026-08-09 by aviationwheater.siten.co · About us

Written in house

Every guide is researched and written by our editorial team from the published documentation, not rewritten from another site.

Reviewed on a schedule

Each guide carries the date of its last review, and we publish the date even when nothing changed.

Sources named

Where a threshold comes from ICAO Annex 3, an FAA category or a national service, the guide says which.

Twelve languages

Every guide is translated, not machine-popped — each language has its own URL and its own review date.

Not an operational source

We explain reports; we never issue them. The official service and the commander decide, and every page says so.