No flying today, but a new app

Well I didn't get to do any flying today, not because of the weather (surprisingly - as it's not been great and we even had snow yesterday), but unfortunately my instructor was temporarily grounded after being involved in a road traffic collision earlier in the week. He's OK (his bike less so), but due to the pain killers he's been put on for the next few days he's not allowed to fly and that means I too am grounded.

Still we made good use of the time and ploughed through some more ground school stuff, covering stalls, spins and a few other bits and pieces. Hopefully by covering off the full briefings we can get straight up into the air (circumstances allowing) this coming Saturday.

I also got a recommendation for quite a useful app for the iPhone, which is AeroWeather. This useful little app is available either completely free w=for the lite version or £2.50 for the pro version (which adds a few extra features) and is really handy for checking weather information. It basically at a glance gives you basic details for all the airports in your nearby area, including most importantly straight away if it is suitable for VFR (Visual Flight Rules) flying:

You can then go in and get the full METAR and TAF data for your airport of choice, and it will even translate all the sometimes unintelligible stuff into simple to understand english:

It's able to access data worldwide so is useful for planning routes, and the pro version even gives you the relevant NOTAMs for the airports as well.

All in all a very useful little app to add to the arsenal.