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


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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.

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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

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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. 

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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

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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. 

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