OK Piper Painter, no more lurking for me...........Anyone have a favorite free site for TAFs and METARs in local time? I use Garmin Pilot on the iPad, and love not having to do zulu, but I can't seem to find a free site for phone and computer use.

FlyQ Pocket- free, decodes the whole thing with local time.
Seems to be accurate.

--Bill

Yes, Fly Q Pocket. That is the free version. From Seattle Avionics. I think to get it free you have to be an AOPA member, or at least you used to.

MTV

Aeroweather for ipad/iphone - superb - they have a lite version which is free or very, very cheap

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/aeroweather-lite/id288286079?mt=8

If you're looking for just a website, it's hard to beat http://www.wunderground.com/

It takes ICAO identifiers as search input, shows decoded METARs, and had good historical/archived data. As far as I can tell though, it doesn't show TAFs, but the forecast presentation is way better anyway.

FlyQ looks great, I'll try that on the phone. I use WU and NOAA for forecasts a couple days out. Amazing how dissimilar they can be. I'm looking for a website i can access from my computer. I've been reading wx text and converting zulu for a long time, but with all this technology, it seems archaic. I'll never forget a quote heard on the radio.."I don't do zulu."

I've been using aeroweather for a few years and it is great. I haven't piloted a plane in a year but I still use the app all the time to check the weather and the TAF.

Aeroweather here. Someone just shared a website that shows cooking forecasts a little further pot than the TAF but I can't remember the link. I'll post it up later

Zzz wrote:If you're looking for just a website, it's hard to beat http://www.wunderground.com/

It takes ICAO identifiers as search input, shows decoded METARs, and had good historical/archived data. As far as I can tell though, it doesn't show TAFs, but the forecast presentation is way better anyway.

I like their website because they also show wind predictions. Reasonably accurate around here.

I use this one. Hover over any weather site and the local time is in the box.

http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/zoa/mwmap2.php?map=zlc

UngaWunga wrote:

Zzz wrote:If you're looking for just a website, it's hard to beat http://www.wunderground.com/

It takes ICAO identifiers as search input, shows decoded METARs, and had good historical/archived data. As far as I can tell though, it doesn't show TAFs, but the forecast presentation is way better anyway.

I like their website because they also show wind predictions. Reasonably accurate around here.

They also allow you to set the forecast data source. You can choose from their own "Best Forecast" product, which is a crowdsourced observation data that tends to have a higher reporting frequency, and allows some additional products, or the NWS data.

I still used Aeroweather for mobile but from the comfort of my desk I've started using Wunderground.