Alternative to IPhone for weather and NOTAMs

[tnowak]

For those of you who may be familiar with the free YAWS mobile phone weather service (yaws.mobi), the site owner has just developed a new application for Android mobile phones. From the screen shots I have seen it looks very good and will, for example:
* fetch copyright-free data directly from the US National Weather Service,
* fetch both TAF and METAR, as you would expect, and for many airfields at a time,
* find all TAF and METAR available within 100 miles of your current geographic location.
* calculate Density Altitude at each airfield,
* calculate Sunset times at each airfield,
* will provide the official Flight Category pertaining at an airfield when a METAR was issued
* will allow the saving and recall of popular searches for a range or airfields
* entry of simple codes will do complex searches for example ~US will return the weather data for all US airfields that propagate METAR
* will allow ICAO lookups on a country or US state search basis.

Available now from Goggle Markets for only a few USD
(by the way, the original YAWS service returns in a few weeks time - server was hacked).
Tony
p.s I have no connection whatsoever to the owner of YAWS - I just use the service

[Steve Pierce]

Our technology today is amazing. I remember how in awe I was a few years ago sitting under a pavilion at a fly-in looking at blue skies watching a thunderstorm about to roll in on us on someone's cell phone.