METARMAP

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Gift ideas, flight weather and news about the METARMAP.
The METARMAP legend card that comes with every map: GAFOR categories C, O, D, M and X by visibility and cloud ceiling

GAFOR Colours: What Charlie, Oscar, Delta, Mike and X-Ray Mean

The five GAFOR categories with their visibility and cloud ceiling limits, and how the METARMAP turns them into colours.
On the left the large METARMAP framed on a wall, on the right the METARMAP Mini on a desk, both with glowing airfields

Gifts for Pilots: What Gets Used and What Ends Up in a Drawer

What do you give someone who flies? Ideas from small tokens to a guest flight, and two things to check with them before you buy.
A METAR for Leipzig/Halle with each group underlined in colour and a line to the green LED on a map of Germany

How to Read a METAR: The Aviation Weather Report, Group by Group

Wind, visibility, cloud, temperature, pressure: how to read a METAR, with examples from a quiet afternoon to a foggy morning.