This NEXTGEN feature is used in several map displays as for
AIRMETs and SIGMETs.
In contrast,
Airmet's "Two Nights / One Moon" rhapsodizes the effects of nature on two lovers:
You view the Graphical
AIRMET at aviationweather.com because "pictures are worth a thousand words." Is that sufficient?
An
Airmet for moderate turbulence doesn't mean you'll encounter anything significant, but nor does it guarantee you won't run into something worse.
If we had done so, our misinter-pretation of the
AirMet would have been clear, and we would not have accepted our subsequent clearance to 9,000 feet.
FIS-B textual data application shows
AIRMETs, METARs, NOTAMs, SIGMETs, SPECI and TAF data.
Alert Weather Watches such as
AIRMETs, SIGMETs and Convective SIGMETS are issued when they cover an area of 3000 square miles or more.
An
Airmet for moderate turbulence below 18,000 feet was active over the accident site at the accident time.
"I have an
AIRMET for turbulence," the forecaster said.
On occasion,
AIRMET boundaries would not appear on the map, except at certain zoom levels.
Earlier during the flight, a call for a weather briefing would have revealed an
AIRMET for moderate turbulence and sustained surface winds over 30 knots.
An
Airmet was in effect for mountain obscuration due to smoke and haze.