Where to find textual pireps?

"Andrew Gideon" wrote in message
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Yes, but I need to make up a flight plan to get the PIREPs for a given
area.
Cumbersome if I'm just "looking around".

No you don't. Just get an "area" briefing.

Plus: this morning, I saw a lot of icing PIREPs in my neighborhood on the
graphical display at ADDS. DUATS gave me one.

What were the times on the ADDS PIREPs? PIREPs expire from the official
briefing system relatively quickly, but I suppose ADDS could hang on to them
for a longer period. Of course, that puts the onus on you to look at the
time of the PIREP and determine whether it's relevant to the period of time
you're interested in.

Or possibly your DUAT briefing did not include as distant information as the
ADDS search you did. I doubt DUAT is hiding valid, recent PIREPs from you.

Pete

Peter Duniho wrote:


Or possibly your DUAT briefing did not include as distant information as
the
ADDS search you did. I doubt DUAT is hiding valid, recent PIREPs from
you.

I'm sure it's either the time or space issue. It *always* turns out to be
time or space (or money) at issue grin.

I'm interested, though, in seeing what it was that made the difference.

When I expand the java tool as far into time at it'll go, I see numerous
PIREPS well south of my flight plan's course. Those might be what I saw
this morning.

- Andrew

Andrew Gideon ) wrote:

I'm interested, though, in seeing what it was that made the difference.

When I expand the java tool as far into time at it'll go, I see numerous
PIREPS well south of my flight plan's course. Those might be what I saw
this morning.

I use the ADDs' PIREP java tool all the time. I, too, would speculate that
you were seeing historical PIREPS mixed in with current ones.

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Peter












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Peter R. wrote:

I use the ADDs' PIREP java tool all the time. I, too, would speculate
that you were seeing historical PIREPS mixed in with current ones.

What I saw this morning was on the basic graphic; not the java tool. I
didn't think to use that until later.

What I saw at the time wasn't historical at the time. However, most of the
PIREPS were well south of the course I planned in DUATS, which is likely
why DUATS didn't list them for me.

At least, this is my guess.

- Andrew