The flight following subscription is not required in order to benefit from the Map Overlay options. The weather overlays are provided by DTN.
Layers may be turned on/off by clicking the layer icon and setting hide/show. Once hide/show are set, the settings are saved until changed again. The weather layers are updated continuously.
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MAP LAYERS
Map layers available include:
Radar
Satellite
Weather Fronts
US Convective Sigmets
Airmets: Icing, Turbulence and IFR/Mtn
Global Sigmets
METAR/TAF
TFR
Tropical Storm
Volcano
Volcanic Ash
Radar
Real-time doppler radar displays globally.
Satellite
Real-time satellite displays globally.
Weather Fronts
Display cold, warm, stationary and occluded fronts.
US Convective Sigmets
Display convection over the Continental U.S.
Airmets
Display Icing, Turbulence and IFR Airmets using three different toggles.
Icing Example:
Turbulence Example:
IFR/Mtn Example:
Global Sigmets
Display convective and non-convective global sigmets.
METAR/TAF
Display METARs and TAFs. Click the dot to view the details.
See below for the list of flight categories colors:
Green: VFR (Visual Flight Rules)
Red: IFR (Instrument Flight Rules)
Magenta: LIFR (Low Instrument Flight Rules)
Yellow: MVFR (Marginal Visual Flight Rules)
TFRs (Temporary Flight Restrictions)
There are four TFR flag colors on the map, Red, Green, Blue and Orange. Red is Nuclear, Green refer to Stadium TFRs, Blue are Presidential and Orange are Fire.
Tropical Storm
Easily view active tropical storms that exist in the national waters.
Volcano
View active volcano activity throughout the globe.
Volcano Ash
View the Volcano Ash details of the active volcano activity.
Color Coding of Volcano
The volcano symbol can display in 4 different colors, Green, Yellow, Orange or Red. In this example, the color is Orange and there is an Ash symbol as well. Click on the triangle to learn the details of the active volcano.
Ref: O-O04