Agency’s Work to Improve Pilot ADM and In-Flight Weather Tools

The FAA’s Cockpit Program Management team has been working to develop weather tools and analyze weather-related accidents to identify patterns in pilot decision-making. Several general aviation innovations are currently in the works, including a flight training app and weather aggregation methods.

According to Pokodner, a member of the research team, “it’s not always a matter of getting better weather information, but pilots either not understanding it, processing it correctly, timing, all these other issues that can result in poor decision making relative to weather.”

To help address that, his team is developing an educational application that allows flight instructors to build custom weather training scenarios without programming experience. The platform will support embedded videos, quizzes, and sharing across the instructional community.

His team is also investigating ways to enhance real-time weather availability for general aviation. One project, studying cases where GA pilots routinely fly into areas with no ASOS or AWOS coverage, found that many are unaware of how inaccurate close-proximity sensors can be if they aren’t on the field.

They’re exploring the use of crowd-sourced data, correlation, and sensor fusion to boost the accuracy of non-certified weather sensors—potentially enough to meet legal standards, not just advisory use.

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