NWS website accepts, distributes pilot reports

May 16, 2017 By Dan Namowitz
You have just landed after a flight marked by weather much more challenging than your preflight briefing led you to expect. You would have reported the conditions you began to encounter just as a workload-intensive arrival began—but with the moderate turbulence, cloud bases near approach minimums, and the rude surprise of seeing an unexpected trace of ice on the wings keeping you busy, flying the aircraft was all you could safely manage.
Good call. Now that you are warm and comfortable in the FBO, it’s still not too late to share the details of…