Weather Tab

Opens the Weather UDV settings window.

Opens the Animations & Alerts UDV settings window.

Opens the Product Properties UDV settings window.

Opens the Product Properties 2 UDV settings window.

Click to turn on or off the weather display on the map.

Opens the Weather Product List where you can choose the weather products you would like to see.

Opens the layer window where you can quickly select a weather product. If the auto order has been selected, Flight Explorer will automatically arrange the order of the layer you select.

Pauses or plays the animation.

Set the number of seconds (from 0 - no pause to 10 seconds) that each slide is visible.

Set the time period (from 0 - continuous to 30 seconds) between each group of slides.

Select the layer to which all other animated weather layers will be synchronized. Some weather products do not have the same time interval updates. Some may be 15 min., 30 min., or 1 hour. When more than one weather product layer is being used the on-screen flow may seem out of time or choppy. To help eliminate this, decide which layer you would like to be the primary layer by selecting Top Most (the first layer) or any layer from 1 - 10. All other layers will produce the closest slide, in time, to display along with the primary layer. This renders a smoother weather display.

Time Range refers to the animation legend at the bottom of the map and allows you to modify how much time appears on the legend.

• Auto - allows Flight Explorer to automatically select the time range. By default the time range is minus two hours and plus two hours from the current time.
• History-short (-2 to + 2) - select to have the time line display minus two hours from the current time and forward two hours.
• History-mid (-4 to + 2) - select to have the time line display minus fours hours from the current time and forward two hours.
• History-long (-6 to + 2) - select to have the time line display minus six hours from the current time and forward two hours.
• Forecast-short (-2 to +6) - select to have the time line display minus two hours from the current time and forward six hours.
• Forecast-mid (-2 to + 12) - select to have the time line display minus two hours from the current time and forward 12 hours.
• Forecast-long (-2 to + 24) - select to have the time line display minus two hours from the current time and forward 24 hours.
• Full (-6 to + 24) - select to have the time line display minus six hours from the current time and forward 24 hours.

• Relative - select to have the current time appear as zero on the time line. An arrow appears on the zero indicating the point at which the past time or future time begins on the time line. To the left is the past time. To the right is future.
  
  
• Absolute - select to have the current time appear on the time line. An arrow appears on the time line indicating the current time. To the left of the arrow will be weather animated in the past. To the right of the arrow will be any weather in the future.
  
  

In order to see underlying data for frame of reference, a transparency level can be defined and applied to raster weather products including radar, satellite and other pixel based products such as graphical echo tops. This feature can be enabled by checking the "Enable raster / sat transparency" option and selecting an appropriate value on the associated slider which ranges from Transparent to Opaque. This setting will work with all weather vendors and will also be applied to the Schneider Electric contoured (vector) NEXRAD product.

Weather product objects that are drawn as polygons (Airmets, Sigmets, Watches/Warnings, etc.) can be shaded or filled by selecting Enable fill / shading of polygons. Fill color is determined by the object type. The border or outline color is the same as the object but remains at 2 pixels regardless of opacity level. Set the Transparency/Opacity level for all objects by moving the slider left to more Transparent/Clear or to the right to more Opaque/Solid.

• None - shows no time or date in the legend.
• Time Only - shows only the time of the last update for the product.
• Time/day - Shows the time and day (numeric) of the last update for the product.
  For example: 15:20/20.
• Time/date - Shows the date and the time of the last update for the product.
  For example: 07/20/2017 15:20

Select to indicate that you would like to see the last time that the forecast model ran. This only applies to weather products with a forecast.

During the model run, it will create multiple forecast in the furture. For example, if the model runs at 03:00 and is set to create a forecast every three hours, the model creates a forecast for 06:00, 09:00, 12:00 and so on.

Select to have the weather legend / time line to appear at the bottom of the screen.

Select from the Grouping to change how the products appear in the list.

• None - arranges all the products in alphabetical order.
• Product Type - arranges the product by the type; radar, satellite, lightning, airport, airspace, Airmets/Sigments, turbulence, icing, winds, convective, fronts, SigWx, or Miscellaneous.
• Vendor - arranges the products by the vendor; Sabre, Schneider Electric, MeteoStar, WSI, WDT, or Ensco.

Opens the Weather Options where you can configure the weather.

Opens a new link to a browser with the Aviation Sentry information.