nsWEBPIB is an online Aviation Weather Portal with accompanying Flight Folder Engine. Targeted at the aviation community and hosted by Aviation Authorities and Meteorological Offices nsWEBPIB brings weather and related data to pilots and handlers regardless of their location. The Self-briefing ability enables users to self-manage their own flight folder preparation.
Interface
Our user interface makes it easy for anyone from a novice to an advanced user to effectively search for a wide range of weather data, and to create highly detailed and professional flight folders. The menu is customizable per user role.
Flight Briefing
Take advantage of our easy to use flight briefing engine that will automatically include the most relevant METARs, TAFs and other OPMET, Wind charts, Significant Weather charts and local data. You can then download your flight briefing as an Adobe PDF or other suitable format, ready for printing.
Schedule
Schedule flight documents to be:
• Printed*
• Faxed*
• Sent via FTP or E-mail*
• Made available for download
*The server infrastructure must support these features
Themes
We can customize the product to suit your needs. From changing the layout, colours, fonts and graphics to customizing the flight document with your own headers and footers, text, layout and other information
Help
To assist users in using the system, several sources of help are available.
These include:
• Inline help on each page.
• A help page, customizable by the administrator.
• News functionality to make important information available to users.
• A messaging system that allows users to send messages to the administrator.
The nsWEBPIB web portal allows your users to find the latest weather data and create flight briefings all from a single location.
Access control
Access controlled web portal with email verification and user activity tracking.
*The e-mail server is not part of nsWEBPIB
METAR Trends
View the latest METAR trends including pressure, temperature, dew point temperature, wind speed, wind direction and visibility statistics.
Advisories and warnings
View the latest volcano and tropical cyclone warnings in one location with filters that allow you to instantly view specific ones.
Colour coded messages
Get colour coded Warnings, TAFs, METARs, SIGMETs and AIRMETs highlighting; rain, thunderstorm, wind direction, cloud height and much more.
Decoded messages
View decoded METAR and TAF messages.
We make reading METARs and TAFs easy with a powerful “translate to English” tool.
As a powerful, user-friendly product this system is already operational and serves hundreds of users on a daily basis. It is easy to use and eliminates the labour intensive tasks normally associated with the manual creation of flight folders.
Administrator tools
Configure the site logo, locally produced low-level significant weather charts to be included in briefings, edit the on-line help text, and configure standard flight templates visible to all subscribed users.
Additional languages can be added and language text modified by the user.
Edit page content
Take control of your content. Edit your terms and conditions and related links. Set your contact details and publish news articles whenever you want.
Define regions
Create your own regional group of ICAO stations. These regions are used to group stations when viewing METAR and TAF reports.
Custom chart areas
Define custom chart areas that can be used in flight briefings.
nsWEBPIB API
nsWEBPIB API for connecting customized web portals to our powerful back-engines:
- TCP/IP socket interface
- Services to:
- Create route charts
- Retrieve OPMET
- Generate cross sections along the flight route
- Generate a complete PDF flight folder
- Interpolate wind/temp values
- Select weather based on flight route
User statistics
We make it easy to track the activities of your users, helping you make informed decisions based on user behaviour. You can view the results as a action, per-user, daily, monthly, yearly or total summary or you can view a detailed report.
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