Metar not showing

[jetman104]

A METAR report is not showing on some airports even thou there a valid METARS existing. Exampe EDDL und EDLW.
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[kebekus]

@jetman104 Thank you for your report. At the moment, Enroute downloads METARs only for airfields near your flight route. This is different for NOTAMs because METARs change so quickly, which would result in a huge number of downloads... The METAR report for EDLW will probably become visible a few moments after you add EDLW to your flight route.

I understand that this may cause confustion, and I will discuss with the development team if we can somehow avoid that.

[jetman104]

Thanks for your quick answer, Stefan. A possible solution could be to leave everything as is, but put a METAR link on the airport Page, which will be fed according to your present alghorism, and, when clicked and no data available yet, the METAR report will be uploaded. Thank you very much for your effort, I love ENROUTE NAVIGATION!

[charlylima]

Sometimes it happens that, after you add an airport to the Route, the METAR is already shown on the Weather view, but not yet in the Airport view. Maybe some update mechanism in the code is missing.

Example:
Add EDDH Hamburg to your Route.
Look at the Weather view. METAR is shown.
Look at the Airport view. METAR is not shown.

[kebekus]

Dear all, I will work on this issue next. This will take a while because it involves some non-trivial changes to our infrastructure and the METAR-providing code.

As a start, I wrote a script that generates a list of the ~10,000 known METAR stations worldwide, puts it up for download on our server, and updates it weekly. The app can later use the list to avoid asking for METAR from airfields without METAR stations.