General Aviation Weather Service in Finland Klaus Haikarainen / FMI 18.3.2010
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General Aviation WeatherService in Finland
Klaus Haikarainen / FMI
18.3.2010
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General Aviation in Finland• 1418 aircrafts (2009; excl. airliners)
• 7209 aviation license holders (2009; excl. ATPL)
• General aviation flight hours 105 798 (2008; gliders, motorgliders, ultralights & balloons included)
• Operations count low if compared to Central Europe
• Operations count low especially during winter because of challenging weather conditions
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GA weather service organized by Finavia• Finavia Corporation
• Finavia provides air navigation services in Finland
• Fully state owned company
• Turnover ~300 M€ (2009)
• ~1800 employees (2009)
• 25 aerodromes
Finnish Meteorological Institute FMI• Research and service institute
• Over 600 employees, more than half of them in research and development
• Turnover 61,7 million euros in 2009
• Main research areas
• Climate change
• Air Quality
• Meteorology
• Marine Research
• Earth Observations
• Arctic Research
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FMI headquarters in Helsinki
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FMI as service provider• Aviation and military weather service
• 4 locations: Helsinki, Tampere, Kuopio and Rovaniemi
• Integrated production of civil & military aviation weather service – cost effective
• Quality management system and ISO-9001 certificate
• GA weather service given by phone from Helsinki
• Media: telephone, fax, internet, text-TV
• Financing of civil aviation weather service
• Finavia buys service & development from FMI at cost price
• No direct financing from state budget or whatsoever
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GA Weather products
• GAFOR (BBBB=)
• TAF, METAR• SWC Scandinavia
(00, 06, 12 and 18 UTC)
• Upper air charts
• Web & mobile products
• http://fcaa.foreca.com/
• http://lentosaa.fmi.fi/sar/
• gliding forecast made as volunteer work http://www.suio.fi/ennuste - WRF model initialized by GFS data
• Metars, Tafs & Gafors available via text-TV
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GAFOR in Finland
Cloud height
O D
M
X
1500ft
1000ft
500ft
1500m 5000m 8000m Visibility
Visibility and cloud height criteria
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GAFOR in Finland
• GAFOR issued at 03 and 12 UTC and also 20.30 UTC for areas 30/39 (northern Finland)
• Validity 9hrs
• Forecast areas based on geographical / meteorological characteristics
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An example of Finnish GAFORFBFI41 EFLK 170200 AAA GA-FCST FOR AREAS 11/17 VALID 0412
WX LÄNTISILLÄ JA LOUNAISILLA MERI-ALUEILLA JA LÄNSIRANNIKOLLA SATAA VÄHÄN LUNTA. PÄIVÄLLÄ VÄHÄISIÄ LUMIKUUROJA VOI TULLA PAIKOIN MUUALLAKIN.
WINDS 11/17
SFC 220-270/05-10KT
2000FT 270-350/10-20KT
5000FT 270-340/10-20KT
0-C LEVEL 11/17 NIL
ICE LCA MOD INC BLW FL100
TURB NIL
GAFOR EFHK 0412 BBBB 11,12,14 O BECMG 0609 M -SN 13,15 O LCA TEMPO 0912 M -SN 16,17 D ST BECMG 0810 O LCA TEMPO 1012 M -SN=
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Future development• Graphical GAFOR – or similar LLF
• AutoTAF?
• Semiautomatic Low-Level SWC produced on a meteorological workstation? Output also in some LLF format?
• Pilots would like to have more & better products, but unfortunately nothing is free