(Fixed) METAR Requests for FAA airports with numbers in their identifier

[boctal]

Currently there is no way to request METAR's for FAA airports that have a number in their identifier via ACARS. I don't believe this should be a limitation. A large number of these airports have valid METAR's. E.X. T82, 6A2, 4A6, etc... ADDS does add a "K" prefix to these, but I'm not sure if that matters.

Edited March 2, 2022 by oisin650

[Peter Clark]

It’s probably trying to fetch what you put in. Aviation weather doesn’t accept the numeric either, you have to put in the K by hand.

 

Works: https://aviationweather.gov/metar/data?ids=K6a2&format=raw&date=&hours=0

Doesn’t: https://aviationweather.gov/metar/data?ids=6a2&format=raw&date=&hours=0

Edited February 23, 2022 by Peter Clark

[boctal]

3 hours ago, Peter Clark said:

It’s probably trying to fetch what you put in. Aviation weather doesn’t accept the numeric either, you have to put in the K by hand.

 

Works: https://aviationweather.gov/metar/data?ids=K6a2&format=raw&date=&hours=0

Doesn’t: https://aviationweather.gov/metar/data?ids=6a2&format=raw&date=&hours=0

I mentioned that in my post above. The aircraft will not fetch a METAR in this case regardless if you put a “K” in front of it or not. What I wasn’t sure about was if the Proline software would care if you used the “K” in front of these three character airports. 

Edited February 23, 2022 by boctal

[ois650]

Will be tested with the FMS and any necessary corrections made

[richjb]

I did a test of this yesterday in the CL350 that I fly.  We use ARINC as our CSP, who would provide us with AOC weather METAR, TAF, and NOTAM data. 

You have to enter "K6A2" into the REQ TERMINAL WX page.  If you enter "6A2", the system will display a "FORMAT ERROR" in the scratch pad.  The "K" needs to be present in the airport or METAR ID. 

Hope this helps,

Rich Boll

Edited March 1, 2022 by richjb

[boctal]

On 2/28/2022 at 9:31 PM, richjb said:

I did a test of this yesterday in the CL350 that I fly.  We use ARINC as our CSP, who would provide us with AOC weather METAR, TAF, and NOTAM data. 

You have to enter "K6A2" into the REQ TERMINAL WX page.  If you enter "6A2", the system will display a "FORMAT ERROR" in the scratch pad.  The "K" needs to be present in the airport or METAR ID. 

Hope this helps,

Rich Boll

Thanks, Rich. I figured that was probably the case. Hopefully it can get be added, assuming the 650 works the same way. 

[ois650]

Hi all, 

This was tested in the (actual) 650 and the K does need to be added. You will see this in the next update. 

Rich - thanks for the input as always, much appreciated. 

Brgds