AWT Takes Over FPAW

Stakeholders from across the aviation community are in Kansas City this week for the Spring FPAW (Friends and Partners of Aviation Weather) meeting. Today, AWT integrated with FPAW to leverage knowledge and thoughts from users and producers of aviation weather information. The primary focus today was evaluating user interpretation of probabilistic aviation information. Through online polling and discussion, users were able to provide insite on aviation probabilistic products.

AWT presents at FPAW

This morning, we started with an overview of the winter weather dashboard; which is an operational product both on aviationweather.gov and experimental on our beta website. FPAW participants appreciated the demonstration of the dashboard and being able to see plume and model trend data. They also expressed interest in more information on the impact thresholds on the dashboard.

After lunch, FPAW broke into groups to discuss non-deterministic methods for communicating aviation hazards. Utilizing some of the probabalistic desk graphics the testbed participants have been working on during the week, we got a lot of feedback on how the data are presented and how different weather phenonemon impact the general aviation community. Some of the "hot topics" from the participants were focused on how detailed the graphics are or should be, spatial coverage of the polygons, and how pilots versus meteorologists perceive data.

AWT Organizer, Jack Lind, leading discussion on probabilistic graphics

The day wrapped up with a look at the outlooks graphics from last years 2022 AWT Summer Experiment. Good discussion on the time scale of the outlooks, the busyness of a map with all aviation weather impacts, and how adding text to the graphic would enhance an outlook helped AWT hone in on some of the things the general aviation community is looking for in an outlook graphic.