內容簡介
Leadovation Aerodrome METAR TAF 外掛專為飛行俱樂部或飛行學校設計，能將機場的天氣資訊以易懂的方式顯示在網站上，方便學員、教練及網站管理員使用。
【主要功能】
• 顯示 METAR 和 TAF 天氣資訊
• 提供原始訊息供飛行員參考
• 簡潔的天氣條顯示
• 可自訂顯示的 ICAO 代碼
• 解碼的天氣卡片顯示
外掛標籤
開發者團隊
② 後台搜尋「Leadovation Aerodrome METAR TAF」→ 直接安裝（推薦）
原文外掛簡介
A student opens the club’s website on Saturday morning to see whether the lesson holds. The instructor opens the same page to see what the TAF says for the afternoon slot. The webmaster who built that page has never read a METAR in his life, and should not have to.
Aerodrome METAR TAF puts the field’s weather on the club’s own site, readable by all three. The METAR and the TAF come from the NOAA Aviation Weather Center, are decoded into plain words, and are shown with the flight category first, in cards that follow the site’s theme. The raw message stays one click away for the pilots who read the code.
It is written for a flying club or a flight school and its aerodrome: the field’s weather in plain words, a legal notice that points to the official sources, and a settings screen a volunteer webmaster gets through in five minutes.
What the plugin does
The plugin is built around the club’s aerodrome. Every display reads it by default, and any display can be given another ICAO code in its shortcode or block.
The raw message. The METAR or the TAF exactly as received, in a monospaced block, for the pilots who read the code.
A compact bar. One line, ICAO, category, wind, visibility, ceiling, QNH, at the top or the bottom of a page without crowding it.
A badge. The category alone, colour and shape, with the observation time. Fits in a title, a menu, a sidebar.
A decoded card, METAR and TAF. Wind, visibility, clouds, temperature, QNH, in words. A TAF is read as a TAF: the base forecast with its validity, then one line per change period (BECMG, TEMPO, FM, PROB) with its own time window. The badge is the category of the period in progress and says so (“now”, “from 18:00 UTC”); the worst case over the whole validity, TEMPO and PROB included, is written underneath instead of colouring the head. An expired TAF is greyed and says it.
A compact card. The same decoded card made dense for a column or a footer: one header line, then a grid of pairs. The flat skin removes its background and border so it melts into a column the theme already styles.
A disclaimer with the official links. The legal text, with Aéroweb, OLIVIA and SIA, under each card, once per page, or never, as the setting says. One display can opt out on its own.
A dashboard for the aerodrome. Its last METAR, the category, “observed at” and “fetched” side by side, the health of the NOAA source, and a field to change the aerodrome.
Settings that fit on one screen. The aerodrome, wind unit (knots, km/h, m/s), the category profile with a plain explanation of what NOAA and metric mean and why neither is a regulation, UTC and local time or one of the two, and the disclaimer text and position.
An Integration tab that shows before you copy. Pick a display, set its options (METAR or TAF, size, theme, skin, disclaimer), watch the real preview change, then copy the shortcode or the block. Same options, same names, whichever way you integrate.
A Gutenberg block. One “Aerodrome METAR TAF” block in the Aero category carries every display of the plugin and every option the shortcodes accept.
A widget. The compact bar, the raw message, the badge or the decoded card in a sidebar.
Categories in colour and in shape. VFR, MVFR, IFR and LIFR each have a colour and a distinct dot shape, and the text is always next to the dot: colour alone never carries the information.
Two ages, never confused. “Observed at 17:30 UTC (19:30 local time)” on every card, next to “fetched 2 min ago”. Freshness is judged on the time of the observation, and a message more than two hours old is greyed and says so.
A source that says when it falls. The dashboard shows the health of the NOAA source in green only when the last request succeeded, and “unreachable since 17:52” in red otherwise, with the last known message kept and marked as such.
METAR AUTO read to the end. BKN008///, VV///, 12///, Q////, runway visual range and directional visibility no longer stop the decoder halfway. SPECI, AMD and COR are decoded and tagged.
Aerodrome METAR TAF Pro, a separate plugin
Aerodrome METAR TAF Pro is a separate download from the publisher, which replaces this plugin and keeps its settings. Nothing described below is part of this plugin, and nothing in this plugin waits for it. Pro adds.
Several aerodromes. Favourite aerodromes followed on the dashboard, a multi-aerodrome table with one line per field, and a visitor selector where the visitor types an ICAO code.
The crosswind on the club’s runway. Total wind, gust and crosswind component on the runway in use, on every card that shows wind.
Station details. Elevation, runways and frequencies from OurAirports, each field checked by the club against the VAC chart.
More displays. A tabbed METAR and TAF panel, a single field to drop into a sentence (“QNH 1016 hPa”), and the aerodrome’s webcam with its directories.
Conditions of the day, against the Club thresholds. A green, orange or red light per profile, period by period, on the TAF of the day. Three profiles (student, pilot, instructor), two thresholds per criterion (a warning figure, then a stop figure) for wind, gust, crosswind, ceiling and visibility, plus the phenomena each profile rules out (fog, thunderstorm, freezing…). The club writes what it allows; the plugin compares and never says whether the day is good to fly. A compact light for a single profile fits in a sidebar.
A TAF timeline. The forecast hour by hour, so the best slot can be chosen on the page.
A wind rose on the runways. The wind drawn against the runway headings, the active runway at a glance.
A club-house screen. Fills the whole screen and rotates on its own, for the television by the coffee machine.
A scrolling banner. The conditions scroll like a news feed and take no vertical space.
Student mode. Every part of the METAR and the TAF explained token by token, to learn to read the weather during training.
Avada elements. The displays as native Fusion Builder elements, under “WPTechnology”, with the same options as the shortcodes.
In the colours of the club. An Appearance card in the settings: the club’s accent colour and logo in the card headers, the NWS palette for the categories (blue MVFR, magenta LIFR) as an alternative to the Aero one, the fonts of the theme instead of the range’s, square or rounded corners, a dark default or the visitor’s own setting, and a box of additional CSS scoped to the displays. A live preview shows the real cards while you choose. The 3 px stripe and the dot shapes never change: they carry the information.
The plugin’s screens carry a short note where Pro would add something, with a link to its page; each note closes for good with one click, account by account.
See what Pro adds and what it costs.
Part of the Aero range
Aerodrome METAR TAF is one of the WPTechnology plugins written for flight schools and flying clubs. They share the same look and the same idea: one job each, done properly, and they talk to each other when installed side by side.
Aero Courses: theory course scheduling and booking, the semester built once and published on the school’s site.
Aero Users: the school’s roster (students, pilots, instructors, examiners) shared by the whole range.
Translations
The plugin is written in English.
What this plugin does not claim
The data is provided for information only. It is not an approved source for flight preparation: for that, the pilot goes to the national weather service and the aeronautical information service (in France, Aéroweb, OLIVIA and the SIA), and the plugin’s own disclaimer says so with the links. The decision to fly, and how, remains the pilot in command’s.
The VFR, MVFR, IFR and LIFR categories are a display convention, NOAA’s or an indicative metric transposition of it, and have no regulatory value: they are not EASA or SERA minima.
Third-party services
The plugin fetches the METAR and the TAF from the public API of the NOAA Aviation Weather Center. What is sent is the ICAO code of the aerodrome asked for (LFPN, say), when a display is rendered, when the dashboard is opened, or when the cache is refreshed. No personal data is sent, and no API key is needed. Terms and notices: weather.gov/disclaimer.
The plugin bundles the Freemius SDK, the shop through which Pro is sold, and which also offers anonymous usage statistics if you agree to them on activation. You are asked, you may decline, and declining changes nothing about how the plugin works. Freemius is contacted to read the current price of the Pro plan shown on the Pro tab (a public request that carries nothing about your site) and, with your consent, to send those statistics. Service: Freemius · terms · privacy.
The dashboard shows the other plugins of the Aero range. That list is read from wptechnology.com, the publisher’s own site, at most once a day and only when an administrator opens the dashboard: a plain GET on a public address, with nothing about your site in it. If the site does not answer, the last list received is shown, or the one bundled with the plugin. Whether a plugin is installed here is read locally and never sent. Legal notice · privacy.
