How To Enable Weather Turndown Feature

How to add Weather Turndown to your CAD

 

1. Create a new email address for the CAD to receive the Weather Turndown Email.

This could be on your existing email system, or you can use a commercial system such as Gmail or Yahoo.

2. Add the POP3 settings for the email account you created in step 1 in the CAD.

If you already have settings in POP3, you should contact Flight Vector for instructions on how to proceed.

If you are using a Gmail account:

• Go to settings in Google.
• Enable 2-step verification.
• Create an App Password to use as the POP3 Password in Settings.

If you are using Gmail:

 

POP3 Host:	pop.gmail.com
POP3 Port:	995
POP3 Password:	App password created in Google

3. Click Settings.

4. Search Weather.

5. Select Weather Turndown Email.

6. Enter the Email: [e-mail].

7.  Click OK.

 

Setting Up Weather Turn Down in weatherturndown.com.

1. You will need to ask an administrator to create a new user on Weather Turn Down website for the Flight Vector CAD, please use the email address created above in Step 1 in this article..

2. Select what information will be sent to the Flight Vector CAD.

 

Creating New Alerts & Warnings in Flight Vector.

 

Create a new Alerts and Warnings section in the CAD and label it Weather Turndown (or the label of your choice).

CTL+Right click on a current notification window and select add below->notifications.

 

Wrap in label

Ctl+right click on the label to rename it “WX Turndown” or the name of your choice.

1. Select Settings.

2. Search Notification.

3. Click Edit Notification Filters, or for 6.3 and above, Search for Notification Filters in your settings menu.

4. Select the Green Plus icon.

• Enter the name next to the description

• Build your SQL to select what the CAD filters

• To/from etc (filter examples below)

ifnull((WeatherTurndownProperty('F-State') IN ('WI', 'IL', 'IA', 'MI', 'MN')),'')

ifnull((WeatherTurndownProperty('T-State') IN ('WI', 'IL', 'IA', 'MI', 'MN')),'')

Apply the filter to the new Weather Turndown section (Ctrl+Right Click)

Add any filters you want to the CAD UI. The filters below can be used as an example for the notification filters.

strbetween(Message, '[F-State]', '[') LIKE '%UT%' OR strbetween(Message, '[T-State]', '[') LIKE '%UT%' or strbetween(Message, '[F-State]', '[') LIKE '%WY%' OR strbetween(Message, '[T-State]', '[') LIKE '%WY%' or strbetween(Message, '[F-State]', '[') LIKE '%ID%' OR strbetween(Message, '[T-State]', '[') LIKE '%ID%' or strbetween(Message, '[F-State]', '[') LIKE '%CO%' OR strbetween(Message, '[T-State]', '[') LIKE '%CO%' or strbetween(Message, '[F-State]', '[') LIKE '%NV%' OR strbetween(Message, '[T-State]', '[') LIKE '%NV%'

(WeatherTurndownProperty('F-State') IN ('WI','IL','IA'))

(WeatherTurndownProperty('T-State') IN ('WI','IL','IA'))

Save the layout