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Weather Overlays

Welcome to this week's Top of Climb where we'll be taking a look at the weather overlays.

The weather overlays button displays available weather-related overlays on the map.

This week, we'll take a look at animated overlays.

Animated Weather Overlays

The weather RADAR overlay displays a continuous loop of radar information for the last hour. The feed is refreshed every five minutes. Note: this may lag actual rain by up to approximately 5-10 minutes.
 

Animated overlays such as this can be played in a loop, paused or stepped forwards/backwards, using the icons on the radar controls.





These controls appear at the bottom of the map page.

The timestamp for the snapshot is displayed in the bottom-left hand corner.

 

You can also select from:

  • Infrared Satellite (cloud)
  • Surface Pressure Forecast
  • Freezing Level Forecast
  • Cloud Ceilings Forecast
  • Visibility Forecast
  • Future Rain

Future Rain is a Premium feature. It shows where current weather models predict rain to be between 4 and 90 minutes into the future.

A note for our NZ customers: unfortunately Met Services do not currently provide access to weather-radar type overlay data, so this feature and “future rain” are unavailable for New Zealand.

 

Overlay Legends

To view a legend/key for the overlays, tap on the update time (in the bottom-left corner of the EnRoute tab).



 

In summary, the Visibility and Ceiling overlay coding is:

[Clear = VFR]
Blue = marginal VFR
Red = IFR
Purple = Low IFR

 

 

 

Watch our Webinars

If you didn't get a chance to attend our webinars, the recordings can be viewed here:

Beginners Part One: 
https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/recording/1028070181169170958

Beginners Part Two: 
https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/recording/8625974805158915342

Beginners Part Three:
https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/recording/2034491657238513164

Understanding the Weather: 
https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/recording/2994656678763896075

Intermediate
https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/recording/7396893428836443650

NZ Specific:
https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/recording/991601579961746950

Advanced: 
https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/recording/5622651097993233921

We'll be bringing you more webinars in late April.

Until then, may your batteries always be fully charged,

The Team at AvPlan EFB.

 

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