Online Weather Services

The following web sites provide detailed information and aviation weather briefing services for pilots. Click on the web site name in the left column to be linked directly to the selected service.

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Summary of Services

The Aviation Digital Data Service (ADDS) makes available to the aviation community digital and graphical analyses, forecasts and observations of meteorological variables. Developed as the data distribution component of the Aviation Gridded Forecast System ( AGFS), ADDS is a joint effort of NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory (FSL), NCAR Research Applications Program (RAP), and the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) Aviation Weather Center (AWC).

DynCorp DUATS on the Web provides immediate on-line access to U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) approved information including:

• Current, continuously updated weather information
• Easy-to-understand plain language weather
• Flight plan filing and closing
• Automated flight planning

Free access to DynCorp DUATS is available to U.S. pilots and student pilots who hold current medical certificates, flight instructors without current medicals, aviation ground instructors, glider/balloon pilots and other approved users in the U.S. aviation community.

Free weather service offering a variety of aviation weather and flight planning services. Also good for quick local weather information searched by postal zip code.

Free weather service offering easy display of local weather data and local forecasts searched by postal zip code.

General weather services for the non-pilot. Good for a quick look at developing weather patterns for future travel plans.