US Aviation Chart with Weather

[midair55]

Something that may be of interest to those that want to display aviation weather (i.e. METAR), SIGMETs, TFRs, etc. for an area in the US on their dashboard. The data is an overlay on a Sectional chart.

The skyvector.com site is used however it will not render in an iframe. The work-around is to have a dashboard menu item point to an html file that contains the skyvector URL for the area of interest.

How to:

1. Go to: https://skyvector.com and pan/zoom to the area of interest.
2. Copy the generated URL by clicking on the, "Link" button found at the upper right corner of the page.
3. Create an html file such as, "skyvector.html" with the following:

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<title>Aviation Weather</title> <script> window.onload = function() { window.open("https://skyvector.com/?ll=28.09712081203162,-81.4653396545229&chart=301&zoom=5", '_blank'); } </script>

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Replace the, "https://skyvector.com/?'ll=28.09......." above with the URL copied from the skyvector site in step 2.

4. Save the html in the same directory (folder) as the dashboard html and your config.js file.
5. Add a menu item to your config.js that points to the newly created html file such as:

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[
"9C33FF",
"Aviation Chart",
"skyvector.html",
"1.0",
],
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6. Restart your dashboard
7. Clicking on the new menu item will open a new browser tab and display the Sectional chart for the area of interest. The METAR, SIGMETs, TFRs, etc. are displayed as a pop-up by hovering over the buttons displayed on the map. Clicking on a button launches additional information.

My dashboard is: https://qsl.net/n5ng and the, "Aviation Chart" menu is on the left side near the bottom.