In 2024, as an eager and curious student pilot, I wanted to understand how the upcoming winter season would impact VFR days at my home airport. I couldn't find any forecasts or weather tools to tell me that information, so the computer engineer in me set out to attack this problem. It wasn't long before I turned to historical METARs for answers, and built a way to visually summarize the METAR trends.
Not only did this answer my question about my home airport, but it also was the first step to bridging the data gap between pilots and America's ~2,500 airports with historical METARs.
We are Hack Engine. Our aim is to use data science methods to increase pilots' confidence and improve safety margins -- long before the first forecast is available.
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