Flight Forecast

The ATOW Flight Forecast is released twice a day by the Air Transport Office for Weather, containing a 24 hour and next day weather forecast for the entirety of Flairia, specialised for air travel. Primarily used by airship pilots of the DSRRed, although later taken up by some air-based transport organisations of other colours, it gives concise but specific weather warnings and information.
The flight forecast is released and broadcast at the following times (Red Local Time) each day:
* 0045 - transmitted on FM and LW radio. Includes weather warnings, a 24-hour forecast and a next-day forecast.
* 1205 - transmitted on LW radio only. Contains both weather warnings and a 24-hour forecast.
In order to keep the amount of information that the Flight Forecast aims to present concise for radio transmission, it follows a number of rules and guidelines.
== History ==
The organisation of the Flight Forecast was the primary reason for the founding of the Air Transport Office for Weather. Originally, the forecast included only 5 regions, all within the DSRRed. It was another 23 years before the coverage was increased to the same as today, however, the region codes and layout has been re-organised numerous times since.
== Regions ==
Due to the Flight Forecast’s extremely wide coverage, it was necessary to split Flairia into regions. Each nation was split into 5 regions and the surrounding seas and oceans into more. The land and ocean regions each have 2 or 3 digit codes respectively to identify them, including a letter to signify the larger area and a number to signify the smaller. 
During readouts of the Flight Forecast over radio frequencies, the letters are read out using easily identifiable words to replace them (‘_’ represents a number):
Sea or Ocean - S_ _ - Stream _ and _
Red Nation - R _ - Rosette _
Orange Nation - O _ - Oyster _
Yellow Nation - Y _ - Young _
Green Nation - G _ - Govern _
Blue Nation - B _ - Breaker _
Purple Nation - P _ - Patron _
Mod Nation - M _ - Minister _
The Sea/Ocean code is read out with an ‘and’ between the two digits to decrease the chance that only one digit is heard, and that one is not mistaken for another.
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