Google Chrome doesn't like METARs

Glad I am not the only pilot who enjoys a little Minecraft!

Wonder what it would look like if it was translated from "Portuguese" to "English" !?

I agree, in this age of fast transmission of data, let's forget all the abbreviations and use plain english.

I NOT KEEN ON GOOGLE CHROME.

Chrome's fine with the METAR's. It just thinks they're for airports in Portugal!

Yes - we are all blessed with the married and single jet jockeys.
There are old pilots, there are bold pilots....but not too many left of the old and bold !

Chrome on my HTC TP2 works fine for METARS. Maybe "Portugal" is platform dependent.
ALSO...METAR encoding is great. Things line up...can see spatial weather trends
very quickly. Get with the program! (FAA won't change the basic format soon).

HOWEVER...I'd like to see ASOS/AWOS reports update on-line in a more timely manner.
Seeing 30-50 minute old reports sucks (even after paying an arm and a leg
for XM weather in the cockpit!!!).

Weather changes too fast for 30-50 minute AWOS delays to be safe!

Enjoy...

thats true.

I am a military communicator from the 1960s era. I clearly remember tuning this stuff in on an unencrypted 60 words per minute radioteletype signal. 60 wpm was incredibly slow for the amount of information to be passed and the Metar shorthand was essential. In those days, I was required to be able to copy Morse code at a minimum of 22 wpm in order to graduate from basic radioman school. But HEY! This is the 21st century. The military doesn't even include Morse code in communications training anymore. Metar shorthand is almost as ancient as Morse code and needs some serious updating in the modern communications world.

Lol! Nice post. As an Ohio based pilot I recognize many of those airports ;)

yes. i like it

I always click 'translated' on the TAF/METAR request form. I refused to learn how to read that gibberish - call me lazy. :)

Very simple: all people in Portugal speak METAR

hahaha...nice bookmarks (xkcd, reddit)

Sounds like you need to switch to Firefox. Google Chrome is basically a watered down version of Firefox anyhow. That's what Google is famous for, being a copycat company, but not very good at it. Plus Firefox has lots of aviation related addons you might like to try, and I promise you'll get addicted.