Technology Today Shopping for Weather

摘要

Pilots like to discuss weather even when they're not flying. How much thought do you put into your weather sources? Over the years, our options have certainly expanded. With today's technology, we have access to weather in nearly every phase of flight. Only a few decades ago, our sources of weather were somewhat limited and not altogether mobile. It often required a trip over to the flight service station or base operations for a weather briefing. The weather of yesteryear also required of us to understand a complete alien based language of symbols, contractions and graphics, necessitated by the teletype delivery system of the day. This created unintentional "field of weather interpretation" Every flight department, squadron and hangar had the guy that could decipher the code faster than a WWII Enigma Machine,