I checked our Belgium briefing site and here I could not find PIREPs anywhere. Disappointing. But it shows not every country has this.
UdoR wrote:
Now as you say it I noted that this also exists in Germany, accessible through the DWD weather service:
I found it on the Swedish briefing site as well. Three current reports, all at FL300+
Now as you say it I noted that this also exists in Germany, accessible through the DWD weather service:
I assume that ATC must actually enter PIREPs there.
Will take that into my flight prep and report in some time whether it’s useful for GA.
Not an ATCO but I do know this exists:
Hmmm, no For a working system, there must be a database which can be interrogated via some suitable means, for some location described by a circle or similar.
The US has got that, and that’s one reason why in the US you could (in years past) got busted for a departure into PIREP’d icing conditions in a non-FIKI aircraft.
Looking at posts early in this thread I suspect Europe does have something similar but the access to it is not known to GA.
I am sure one of the many ATCOs who are on EuroGA will be able to post if such a system exists e.g. a data entry and a query facility. It might exist only for airlines i.e. ACARS access for retrieval.
Hm? Voice over the actual frequency…
Apart from random ATC mentions, what is the distribution system?
I often hear airliners reporting icing and turbulence to ATC and I always report both if heavier than low. ATC relays this info to traffic potentially affected.
Maybe if pilots in Europe sent them we would have them?