Rules to Live By

Keep These Points in Mind:

• Real-time weather. PIREPs provide critical real-time flight conditions that other sources lack.
• Plan ahead. Review PIREPs as an essential part of your preflight planning.
• In-flight updates—you can get PIREPs while en route.
• Giving a PIREP is easy.
• Give and get. The more PIREPs we have, the better.
• Pay it forward. Give a PIREP on every flight outside of the traffic pattern.
• Consider providing a Route PIREP to describe conditions between two or more points.
• Reports of actual weather conditions are indispensable when the weather turns out better (or worse) than forecast.
• PIREPs—including fair weather PIREPs—provide key information to improve forecasts.

The more PIREPs we have, the better.