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FlightSure
Solution · Wind & precip

Microclimate forecasts at runway resolution.

Your apron sits in a microclimate. Your stand is on the leeward side of a hangar. Runway 27R floods first. We model all of that — and feed the answer to the people who need it.

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The problem

The airport METAR doesn't know about your stand.

Aviation weather is reported at airport resolution — one METAR per airport, refreshed every half hour. That works for cruise. It doesn’t work for ground operations, where local terrain, hangar geometry, runway aspect, and surface drainage matter more.

The METAR at IST might say wind 240 at 12 knots. The actual crosswind on stand 4-Charlie is 18 gusting 28, because that stand sits in the venturi between two hangars. Loaders don’t operate above 22. The crew finds out on pushback.

FlightSure builds a microclimate model per airport from historical METARs, terrain, and microclimate sensors — and resolves the answer to the stand, not the field.

What we decide

Five decisions, made per consignment.

01
Stand-level wind
Crosswind, gust, and direction at every active stand, hour-by-hour, refreshed every five minutes.
02
Loader cut-off
Forecasts loader and high-loader cut-off windows so ground handling can re-sequence loading before the standdown.
03
Runway preference
For multi-runway airports, recommends runway choice 30 minutes ahead of arrival.
04
Surface contamination
Snow, slush, water and ice forecasts at runway resolution, with friction-coefficient implications.
05
Live-cargo thresholds
Surface and ramp temperatures mapped to handling-restriction thresholds for animal and pharma loads.
Inputs we use
METAR / TAF / SPECITerrain & airport geometryMicroclimate sensorsECMWF + GFSRunway-state reports
We finally have a forecast that respects how IST actually works.
Manager
OCC, Turkish Cargo
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How customers use this in production.

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Turkish Cargo
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British Airways Cargo
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Airport-level forecasts. Stand-level operations.