AUTOMETAR
Issue
Since 2004 the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI) has been planning to replace the reporting of actual weather conditions (METAR) during operational hours by a local meteorologist at the regional airports Rotterdam (EHRD), Maastricht (EHBK) and Groningen (EHGG) with an automated reporting system called AUTOMETAR. AUTOMETAR is already active outside operational hours at EHBK and EHGG since May 2004. Due to the fact that EHRD is officially part of “Mainport Schiphol” (EHAM), the AUTOMETAR concept has to be reviewed in order to comply with ATC procedures at EHAM. Therefore it has been decided not to implement AUTOMETAR at EHRD as of yet.
The SPECI reports will be replaced by a similar format called AUTOSPECI. All information described below regarding AUTOMETAR also applies to AUTOSPECI.
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