Discrete high-altitude flight watch frequencies have also been established for airplanes flying between 18,000 and 45,000 feet msl. Please bear in mind that, depending on your location, more than one flight watch facility may be in radio range. When calling up flight watch, try to call up the correct facility for your location. However, if you can t recall or look up the correct flight watch facility, don t worry about it too much. This way, you ve given flight watch specialists a good idea of where you are.
Flight watch is intended for weather updates only.
Instead, use flight watch to keep track of such things as the surface conditions at your destination, learn of any pilot weather reports along your route, and follow the progress of any fronts or convective activity that may be coming your way. Flight watch information is also a great way to verify or disprove the forecasts that you ve heard during a preflight briefing. So, think of flight watch as an early warning system. Flight watch is a great source of current radar information, too. Flight watch specialists have access to some of the latest-generation weather radar imagery.