METAR Maid

METAR Maid puts current conditions at the fields you care about on your wrist, so checking the weather takes a glance rather than a phone, an app switch and a search. BUILT WATCH-FIRST The Apple Watch app is the point. Raise your wrist and the list is already drawn: conditions come from cache and carry their age, so you are never waiting on the network to see something. The refresh follows. TIMED TO THE OBSERVATIONS, NOT A CLOCK Routine METARs are issued once an hour, most US fields between :53 and :56Z. METAR Maid checks just after that, and again at :35 to catch a SPECI - issued precisely because conditions changed. The app shows when the next check is due, so an hour-old reading reads as the observation schedule rather than a bug. FLIGHT CATEGORY AT A GLANCE VFR, MVFR, IFR and LIFR in the conventional colours, always with the category text alongside, so the display works in sunlight and for colour-blind pilots. WHAT IT SHOWS - METAR, decoded and raw - TAF, decoded into plain language, with temporary and becoming periods marked - PIREPs near a station - Wind, visibility, ceiling, altimeter, temperature and dewpoint - Nearby reporting stations, with distance and bearing YOUR LIST, IN YOUR ORDER Home base first. Reorder on the phone and the order follows to the watch. NO ACCOUNTS, NO ANALYTICS, NO ADS Your favourites stay on your device. There is no sign-up, no tracking, and no server of ours between you and the weather. WHERE THE DATA COMES FROM All weather comes from the NWS Aviation Weather Center at aviationweather.gov. NOT A PREFLIGHT BRIEFING Weather here comes directly from the NWS Aviation Weather Center, but this app is not a certified electronic flight bag, and viewing data here does not constitute an official preflight briefing. Reports can be delayed, incomplete, or missing entirely. Obtain an official briefing from an approved source, and treat what you see here as advisory.