Italian GAFOR?

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Italian GAFOR?

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Massimo Belloni	Massimo Belloni posted 2/5/2019 6:45:01 AM Topic Details Share Topic
Group: Forum Members Posts: 35, Visits: 6.5K	Hello, The GAFOR data of Italian Air Force is publicly available at the page http://www.meteoam.it/gafor For raw data they can be contaced at aerosquadra.sm.met@am.difesa.it (see also http://www.meteoam.it/page/come-contattarci, in Italian, of course) What about integrating Italian GAFOR in SD? Regards, Massimo Belloni Edited 2/5/2019 6:45:40 AM by Massimo Belloni
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Tim Dawson	Tim Dawson posted 2/5/2019 11:27:30 AM Post Details Share Post
Group: Forum Members Posts: 8K, Visits: 9K	I believe we have reached out to Italian authorities previously, on this topic, without success. But I have just written another email to the address you provided and we'll see what happens. We are certainly willing.
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Fabrizio Albonico	F Fabrizio Albonico posted 9/15/2023 6:10:25 AM Post Details Share Post
F Group: Forum Members Posts: 37, Visits: 40	+x Tim Dawson - 2/5/2019 11:27:30 AM I believe we have reached out to Italian authorities previously, on this topic, without success. But I have just written another email to the address you provided and we'll see what happens. We are certainly willing. Hi Tim, has there been any news on this topic? I found the following website that gives the GAFOR in a textual (and rather complicated) way. It's from the Italian Air Force. https://www.meteoam.it/it/gafor Then I found this that tries to bring order in the mess of the textual GAFOR: http://www.traffico-aereo.it/pages/met/met04/met04_0.htm I really hope that SD could implement it as it would make understanding it way easier than having to go through the manual decoding procedure. Thanks! -- LSZA based DA40 / SR20 / S22T / PIVI / TWEN
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Tim Dawson	Tim Dawson posted 9/27/2023 11:01:49 AM Post Details Share Post
Group: Forum Members Posts: 8K, Visits: 9K	Hi, there hasn't been any news, but that is an interesting link, thanks. I've spent some time looking at it because the way the Italians publish GAFOR appears to be more complex than other countries. The examples they give make sense, and we could decode them, but just look at the current bulletin below. FBIY61 LIIB 270500 GAFOR LIIB 270612 BBBB 1/7, 8N/13 O BBBB 8S D3 TSRA= This looks to me (unless I am misunderstanding) like they've divided zone 8 into N and S parts, which does not fit the GAFOR format at all. I'll keep an eye on the forecasts to see how they look for a couple of days.
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Fabrizio Albonico	F Fabrizio Albonico posted 9/29/2023 8:23:29 AM Post Details Share Post
F Group: Forum Members Posts: 37, Visits: 40	+x Tim Dawson - 9/27/2023 11:01:49 AM Hi, there hasn't been any news, but that is an interesting link, thanks. I've spent some time looking at it because the way the Italians publish GAFOR appears to be more complex than other countries. The examples they give make sense, and we could decode them, but just look at the current bulletin below. FBIY61 LIIB 270500 GAFOR LIIB 270612 BBBB 1/7, 8N/13 O BBBB 8S D3 TSRA= This looks to me (unless I am misunderstanding) like they've divided zone 8 into N and S parts, which does not fit the GAFOR format at all. I'll keep an eye on the forecasts to see how they look for a couple of days. It appears that this is the case indeed. Unfortunately, I have no further information about that, but still hope that the GAFOR will make it into SkyDemon eventually -thanks a lot for all you do! -- LSZA based DA40 / SR20 / S22T / PIVI / TWEN
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Tim Dawson	Tim Dawson posted 9/29/2023 9:11:16 AM Post Details Share Post
Group: Forum Members Posts: 8K, Visits: 9K	It so happens that I am seeing the Italian military next week, so I will try to raise the issue and get some answers.
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Fabrizio Albonico	F Fabrizio Albonico posted 11/14/2023 9:47:30 AM Post Details Share Post
F Group: Forum Members Posts: 37, Visits: 40	+x Tim Dawson - 9/29/2023 9:11:16 AM It so happens that I am seeing the Italian military next week, so I will try to raise the issue and get some answers. Hi Tim, any update on your meeting with the military? Thanks a lot! -- LSZA based DA40 / SR20 / S22T / PIVI / TWEN
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Tim Dawson	Tim Dawson posted 11/20/2023 10:47:13 AM Post Details Share Post
Group: Forum Members Posts: 8K, Visits: 9K	A friend in the Italian military managed to get the contact details of the correct person in the military to discuss this with. I emailed them, I think the week before last, so I'm awaiting a response at the moment. From studying the data available at the URL linked above, I do not think the format is necessarily strict enough, and there appears to not always be any data published at all, but time will tell.
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