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FAA Offering New Tool to Forecast Inflight Icing Conditions

The FAA has developed a new web-based forecasting tool that can be used by pilots, aviation meteorologists and airline dispatchers to get information about low-altitude icing hazards up to 12 hours in advance.

The Forecast Icing Tool can provide both a color weather map, and a display of icing potential along a flight route, at flight levels from 3,000 to 18,000 feet. The user can select forecast times from three-to-twelve hours in three-hour increments.

The National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, developed the new tool, using funding from the FAA’s Aviation Weather Research program. This tool joins a growing suite of other FAA-developed weather tools that are publicly available on-line. 04-16-2004.

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