The FAA is asking pilots to participate in its new weather survey.
The FAA Aviation Weather Division (AWD) is collecting information from pilots to help assess convective weather products, agency officials noted.
Specific objectives for the Weather Information Modernization and Transition (WIMAT) Convective Weather Survey are to:
- Identify convective weather products used by the aviation community.
- Determine overall usability of the convective weather products.
- Determine overall preference of the convective weather products.
- Identify optimal convective weather products to support decision-making.
- Identify weather products that do not support the decision-making processes.
The data collected will be analyzed and reported as group data. No personal identifying information will be collected or reported.
You can take the survey here.
I really don’t like the new layout of the aviation weather website. I was a lot more user friendly before. I really truly think people would like it changed back to old platform. There was nothing wrong with it.
Longtime user of website.
I completely agree; it’s bad enough now where I’ve all but quit using it. I’ve spent WAY too much time futzing around the site trying to find various features. More often than not, said feature is gone. An example is the visual satellite view with looping. I had to ask the support folks how to get that to work – their response was, “we’ll look into ‘adding’ that feature” – a “feature” that was there for years. For this and many other reasons, I’ve given up on using the aviation weather website – my flight students (whether they be PPC, CPC, IR, or FR) have been avoiding the website as well.