Unconventional Wisdom

This is a little toy I wrote for my flight training so I could see what was going on at my airport at a glance. It simply shows you the weather for the airports you desire along with a few simple calculations to help make your flying decision. It's free, but possibly a little buggy. I thought it might be fun or helpful for others. I expect to be cleaning it up over the next several months so it's a work in progress.

Some the features are

Gives you METAR/TAF information for a number of airports at a glance
Computes Crosswinds and Density Altitude for all stations
Uses your personal criteria (Crosswinds, Visibility, Ceiling) for flagging GO/NO-GO/Marginal conditions
Lets you associate an airport without METAR/TAF reporting capabilities with a nearby station
Keeps an icon in your task bar to indicate the conditions at a selected field

MetarMonkey gives you an at-a-glance overview of your selected airports
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The Current Conditions screen gives detailed meteorological information and a graphical depiction of the active runway
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Installation Instructions:

MetarMonkey requires the Microsoft .NET Framework v1.1 to be installed. If you don't have it installed, you can get it here.

Download the .zip file HERE. Create a directory, unzip the files to it and run the executable. That's all.

Caveats: I've noticed that it has trouble running off a network drive. Looking into it, but for now it needs to be run from your C: or D: drive.

If you think I'm writing in a foreign language, you might need to wait until I get around to a more user friendly installer. This is kind of a preview to see if there is any interest in my further development. If there is a great outcry for an installer, I might expedite that.

Feel free to email me if you find problems, have suggestions, etc.