Sub-regional Forecaster does  aviation forecasting

Action sequence:

·        Look at weather, current and forecasted.

·        Aviation forecasting looks at a shorter period of  time - 5-6 hours.

·        The focus is on turbulence, icing, thunderstorms - all the aviation hazards.

What supports the action sequence? 

What is the needed information?

All METOC resources; radar and satellite are heavily used.

Where pilots are going, when they go, what they are flying, altitudes they fly. Typically the request for a brief comes from:

- a DD-175,

- Instructor calls in

- Call  from elsewhere

What is good or useful about the support and the depiction of needed information?

·        DD-175 has all needed information - where, in what, altitude, etc.

·        It is good for SRF and FDO to talk to be sure they have a unified view of what will happen

What about the support or information depiction makes the action sequence difficult?

·        SRF spends much time standing up to talk to FDO and to people who are at the Wall of Thunder.

·        DD-175s are hand-written - can be hard to read and they have to track down the pilot of the form is incomplete or if the forecaster cannot read the writing.

·        Sometimes the DD-175s are often not dropped off in a timely fashion - students presents the form, five minutes later the instructor wants the dash-1.