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Improve the current icing potential and turbulence analysis provided to pilots with updated cockpit-based display. This tool supplements AIRMETs and SIGMETs, enhancing operational use and promoting safety through accurate forecasts and intensities. Pilot inclusion and training are crucial aspects of this development.
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Cockpit-based Dissemination/Display Tenny Lindholm
CIP, FIP, GTG • Problem: The [CIP, GTG] is an automatically generated product that supplements AIRMETs and SIGMETs by identifying areas of [current icing potential, turbulence], but it does not substitute for the intensity and forecast information contained in AIRMETs and SIGMETs. It is authorized for operational use by meteorologists and dispatchers. Pilots?
Other issues • Products may be first approved for dispatchers and meteorologists as a guidance product • Planning for pilot use in a reasonable time is needed • Already included in “all available information” category in 91.103 • Need to develop criteria for pilot operational use that address safety and science • Improve CIP/FIP, making products “reasonably accurate” out to 6 hours
What is being done • Scientific verification of current CIP • Ongoing • Operational application of things like “icing potential”- need intensity • Intensity algorithm in development—AWTT “experimental” status planned for Spring 2004 • Verification will follow • Establish concept of use within the current NWS AIRMET and SIGMET framework • Discussion with NWS—HIML/HIFL, bless 4-D grids as the official operational product • Pilot training and AIM