FPAW Fall 2021 Meeting: Day 1, Part 2
Channel: NSF NCAR Research Applications Laboratory
Date: 2021-11-19

Friends and Partners in Aviation Weather (FPAW)
Monday, October 4, 2021 - Thursday, October 7, 2021
Virtual

Fall 2021 Meeting: Day 1, Part 2
Virtual

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October 4, 2021
Day 1: Today’s Aviation Weather

1130-1140 Welcome and Announcements
1140-1145 Overview of TEM
1145-1210 Interagency Council on the Advancement of Meteorological Services (ICAMS) Overview -
Dave Chorney

1210-1310 Operations Panel
- Discussion on current weather support to aviation operations. What’s good about it? What’s not
so good? What are the gaps?
o Commercial
o GA
o Air Traffic Control
o Military
Panelists: AWC (Joshua Scheck), NAM/CWSU (Kirt Squires), AAWU (Josh Maloy), Airlines for
America (Kory Gempler), DoD (TBD)

1310-1340 Break

1340-1440 Research, Development and Transition to Operations
- What weather research is currently occurring directly related to aviation? What gaps is this
research trying to fill?
o Commercial
o GA
o FAA (NWP, CSS-Wx)
o FAA Weather Community of Interest
o NOAA/NCEP
Panelists: FAA (Doug Murphy), FAA (Bill Bauman), Global Systems Lab (Steve Weygandt), NASA
(Bill Smith), DoD (Josh Cossuth?), NWS (Jason Levit)

1440-1450 Break

1450-1550 Governance
- Discuss governance, policy, and guidelines that aviation weather research and operations must
adhere to and follow, and how those policies may change in the future. In addition, discuss
governance on the weather provider side that affects and impacts aviation weather.
Panelists: FAA (AVS - Gordy Rother, Nattiel Chambers), NWS (Bruce Entwistle)
1550-1600 Highlights from the day, preview tomorrow’s agenda Randy Bass - FAA
1600 End of Day 1