{"id":16180,"date":"2020-08-07T22:00:14","date_gmt":"2020-08-07T22:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saj.pachecostudios.com?p=16180"},"modified":"2020-08-10T11:31:01","modified_gmt":"2020-08-10T11:31:01","slug":"new-colorado-aviation-weather-cameras-now-operational","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/state-news\/colorado\/new-colorado-aviation-weather-cameras-now-operational\/%20","title":{"rendered":"New Colorado Aviation Weather Cameras Now Operational"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Photo above – A look above the Bald Mountain (7BM) AWOS site located approximately 11 miles east of Cottonwood Pass. This is one of 13 Colorado mountain weather stations now equipped with FAA weather cameras. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Colorado Division of Aeronautics and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) have announced the availability of 52 new aviation weather cameras installed on the Division’s network of 13 Mountain Automated Weather Observing System (AWOS) sites.  In addition to receiving accurate and certified aviation weather information, pilots now have the ability to visually observe weather conditions high in the Colorado Rockies before they depart the airport.  Colorado\u2019s new aviation weather cameras can be accessed at https:\/\/weathercams.faa.gov<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Colorado FAA Weather Cameras<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This innovative effort was made possible through a\npartnership developed between the Colorado Division of Aeronautics and the FAA\u2019s\nAlaska Weather Camera Program. For many years, the FAA has administered a\nWeather Camera Program in the State of Alaska, providing visual weather\ninformation to pilots in that state\u2019s challenging environment. Currently, the\nAlaska Program has a network of over 230 camera sites. The 13 new camera sites\nnow operational in Colorado are the first in the U.S. outside of Alaska to be\nincorporated into the FAA weather camera network. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Walton Peak AWOSOn the FAA\u2019s Weather Camera website,\nColorado pilots (and others with an interest) can access current weather camera\nimages and compare them to clear day views, and also have the ability to\nplayback a loop of past images to ascertain weather trends. The FAA\u2019s upgraded\nwebsite also provides one-stop access to a variety of safety of flight\ninformation, including current conditions (METARs), terminal area forecasts\n(TAFs), pilot reports, and radar and satellite imagery. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Colorado Division of Aeronautics is excited to have had\nthis opportunity to partner with the FAA in yet another joint effort to enhance\naviation safety in Colorado,\u201d said CDOT Aeronautics Director David Ulane. \u201cThe\nDivision is proud to continue our heritage of pioneering new initiatives that\nfurther our mission to help advance a safe, efficient, and effective air and\nspace system in Colorado.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This initiative was funded by the Division with $226,000 of\nfunds approved by the Colorado Aeronautical Board and allocated to FAA under a\nReimbursable Agreement.  Under this\narrangement, the FAA and the Governor\u2019s Office of Information Technology\ninstalled and configured four weather cameras on each of Colorado’s Mountain 13\nAWOS units.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This innovative project marks the third such collaboration\nbetween the Division of Aeronautics and FAA, where the Division has funded\nFAA-completed safety improvements on our behalf.  Previous reimbursable agreements with FAA\ninclude the development of Colorado’s Wide Area Multi-Lateration System, and\nongoing Remote Tower Project at the Northern Colorado Regional Airport (FNL).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Photo above – A look above the Bald Mountain (7BM) AWOS site located approximately 11 miles east of Cottonwood Pass. This is one of 13 Colorado mountain weather stations now equipped with FAA weather cameras. The Colorado Division of Aeronautics and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) have announced the availability of 52 new aviation weather […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16181,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colorado"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/mnt-camerasedit.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16180"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16192,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16180\/revisions\/16192"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}