Metro-02
Meteorology and Flight Planning
d.
Communications headers contain unique
information for routing purposes, as well as
allowing individual sections to be replaced,
rather than appended
e.
In-flight advisories (AIRMETs, SIGMETs,
Convective SIGMETs) amend or update the FA;
however, the appropriate section of the FA
should be amended or corrected as soon as
practical
2.
Responsibility - Issued by the National Aviation
Weather Advisory Unit (NAWAU) in Kansas City,
Missouri, for the conterminous United States and
coastal waters
a.
Pacific Coast (SFO)
b.
Rocky Mountain (SLC)
c.
North-Central (CHI)
d.
Northeast (BOS)
e.
South-Central (DFW)
f.
Southeast (MIA)
g.
Four additional FAs issued by the Weather
Service Forecast Offices (WSFO) in
Anchorage, Fairbanks, and Juneau for Alaska
and in Honolulu for Hawaii
h.
A specialized FA for the Gulf of Mexico shall be
issued by the National Hurricane Center in
Miami
(1) Combines aviation and marine information
in support of offshore helicopter operations
(2) Addresses an area including the coastal
plains and coastal waters from
Appalachicola, Florida, to Brownsville,
Texas, and the Gulf west of 85W and north
of 27N
(7-97) Original
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