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Good Sunday evening to you all.

We hope your favorite team(s) won this weekend (Matthias' Buffs and Broncos both did). But even if they didn't, you can win by registering for the Fall 2024 FPAW Meeting, which will take place from Tuesday-Thursday, October 29-31, 2024 at the FAA Tech Center (FAATC) in Atlantic City, NJ. For non-U.S. citizens planning to attend in person, it is especially important that you do so by the end of the upcoming week (September 27, 2024), as we need to send your information to the FAA security folks at the FAATC 30 days ahead of the meeting.

On the fence about attending in person? We hope to have a more detailed agenda published in the next week in place of the current preview, and when you see it, we're confident that you'll come off the fence and want to register for in-person attendance at the meeting.

Why? Well, the three long session topics (NWP/CSS-Wx Update, The Art of the Possible, AI and Aviation Weather), their session leads and presenters/panelists are outstanding! And since we're at the FAATC, it should come as no surprise that the long sessions will have lab tours and interactive demos embedded in their schedules. In addition, our FAATC hosts will be offering pre-meeting tours of some of the most interesting, one-of-a-kind labs housed at the FAATC on Wednesday and Thursday mornings. Talk about being like a kid in an aviation candy store!

So, no more dilly-dallying. Register, and please attend in person if at all possible. You won't regret it!

Matt Fronzak and Matthias Steiner
FPAW Co-Chairs

P.S. If you're wondering how one gets to Atlantic City, NJ, Spirit Airlines flies to ACY nonstop out of several airports in Florida. And every airline has flights into Philadelphia, from which it is a just short 1-hour drive to the Tech Center. So, get your hotel and car reservations made, and join us at the FAATC next month.

Good day, fellow aviation weather enthusiasts.

The FPAW Steering Committee (SC), which was formed two years ago, is comprised of thirteen individuals. Four represent the Aviation Weather Users community, four more represent the Aviation Weather Researchers, Engineers, Developers (RED) and Academia constituency, three represent the Aviation Weather Providers community and two represent Aviation Weather Regulators. More information about the FPAW SC can be found on the FPAW web page under the Organization tab.

Each year, based on the way the FPAW SC was set up, the terms of either four or five current SC members come to an end. Because there are no term limits, those members cycling off the FPAW SC are eligible to be re-elected and serve a new three-year term. In mid-September 2024, the members of the 2023-2024 FPAW SC, including those members cycling off, will use a voting process to select the individuals to fill the open slots.

At the Spring 2024 FPAW Meeting, and via both the FPAW web site and these emailed newsletters, we advertised that there would be five available three-year slots on the FPAW SC starting on October 1, 2023. Two of the slots will represent the RED & Academia constituency, and one each will represent the Providers, Regulators and Users communities.

We are pleased to announce that 10 Aviation Weather professionals have officially submitted their names for consideration for the five upcoming slots. They are listed in the table below, along with their organizational affiliation and the constituency they would represent. Current FPAW SC members who have indicated their desire to return to the group for another 3-year term (i.e., incumbents) are shown with a parenthetical (I) after their last name. The number of open slots within each constituency group is also shown parenthetically.

This is for your information only. We will advise you on the results of the voting and the makeup of the 2024-2025 FPAW Steering Committee as soon as we are able.

Matt Fronzak and Matthias Steiner
FPAW Co-Chairs

Good day all,

This a quick, two-part reminder:

1. The Fall 2024 FPAW Meeting preview is up on the FPAW web site here. Take a peek - it's going to be an EXCELLENT meeting!

2. The registration form for said meeting is also on the same page, beneath the preview. Because of where the meeting is  taking place (FAATC) and what is required to enable access to the facility, registration for in-person attendees is vital and will be closing relatively early. So, do not delay - get yourself registered and ready to head to Atlantic City in late October!

Matt Fronzak and Matthias Steiner
FPAW Co-Chairs

P.S. Ten outstanding individuals have self-nominated for the five upcoming FPAW Steering Committee openings. Stay tuned for details on the candidates, followed by results of the voting, over the coming weeks.

Happy Thursday before a L-O-O-O-N-G Weekend!!

This is a reminder to everyone that can hear our digital voices that your opportunity to self-nominate for one of the upcoming three-year positions (October 1, 2024 through September 30, 2027) on the FPAW Steering Committee (SC) will close in just over 24 hours (COB EDT tomorrow, Friday, 8-30-24). We already have 10 self-nominations for the five openings but we could surely use, oh, two more to get to a dozen!

And how is this FPAW SC self-nomination thing done, you ask? It's easy -- send an email to Matthias (msteiner@ucar.edu) and me (mfronzak@mitre.org) with your expression of interest, including the constituency you would propose to represent, in the body of the email, and your current C/V attached. That's all there is to it!

So, stop procrastinating and throw your name in the FPAW SC hat!! 

Matt Fronzak and Matthias Steiner
FPAW Co-Chairs

Good Sunday to you all!

Matthias and I are pleased to let you know that a preview of the Fall 2024 FPAW Meeting is now available on the FPAW web site here. I can only speak for myself, but I AM SO EXCITED about what we're going to hear, see, discuss, experience, and touch from Tuesday, October 29, 2024 through Thursday, October 31, 2024. Side note -- costumes are optional for the final day of the meeting (AKA Halloween).

You may be asking yourself "What's with the 'experience and touch' references?" Well, multiple interactive tours and demonstrations of the techno-geekery housed at the FAA William J. Hughes Center for Advanced Aerospace (formerly the FAA Technical Center) will be made available to in-person FPAW attendees. While we will be doing our very best to share them with the virtual FPAW audience, it is not clear how or even if we will be able to do so, and I feel certain that the experience of the in-person attendees will be far, far superior.

So, don't waste any time. Start making your ACY travel plans NOW, block October 29-31, 2024 on your calendars, stay tuned for guidance on when the Fall 2024 FPAW Meeting registration page goes live, and come join us in person at the FAA Center for Advanced Aerospace in a little over two months!

Matt Fronzak and Matthias Steiner
FPAW Co-Chairs

Good afternoon, all.

We want to quickly remind you that we're two weeks into the call for self-nominations to fill upcoming openings on the FPAW Steering Committee. There are five available three-year (October 2024 - September 2027) positions up for your consideration: two representing the Research, Engineering and Development (RED) and Academia community, and one each representing the User, Provider and Regulator communities.

You might be wondering about nominating someone else. We certainly encourage you to identify excellent FPAW SC candidates, but we will ultimately need them to agree with your assessment and go through the simple self-nomination process. What is that simple process, you ask? Well, it consists of sending an email to Matthias (msteiner@ucar.edu) and me (mfronzak@mitre.org) that contains (1) a 1-2 paragraph expression of interest in serving on the FPAW SC, including information about why you should be selected, (2) the constituency (Providers, RED and Academia, Regulators, Users) that you propose to represent, and (3) a current CV/resume. That’s it!

So -- what are you waiting for? Step up and join us as we improve aviation weather on behalf of ALL of its stakeholders!

Matt Fronzak and Matthias Steiner

FPAW Co-Chairs

Hello, FPAW members.

The FPAW Steering Committee (SC), which was stood up in the Fall of 2022, will celebrate its 2nd full year of existence this coming September. With little in the way of precedence to lean on, it has gotten into a nice and productive rhythm in its approximate monthly meetings. The FPAW SC has played an increasingly large role in the planning of FPAW Meetings and was instrumental in the creation of the first (but surely not the last) FPAW Position Paper. Equally or more importantly, it has proven to be comprised of individuals who care deeply about being Friends and Partners in Aviation Weather. 

We constructed the terms of individual FPAW SC members so that either four or five of its members (approximately 1/3 of its membership) rotate off the committee each year. This means that September 30^th marks the end of the current terms of five FPAW SC members. The following table lists our colleagues who are scheduled to cycle off the committee at the end of September, along with the aviation weather constituency that they represent.

These individuals have made significant contributions to FPAW, as presenters, panelists and session leads at FPAW meetings, and as members of the FPAW SC. Each one has our sincere gratitude, and we hope that they elect to throw their names back into the FPAW SC candidates hat, which members cycling off the FPAW SC certainly can do.

Speaking of names of FPAW SC candidates, if you, too, desire to serve the FPAW community, Matthias and I would like to use this opportunity to encourage you, the members of FPAW, to self-nominate for one of the five open positions. Alternatively, if you know of someone else who you think should serve as a member of the FPAW SC, regardless of whether they are a current FPAW member, feel free to forward this email to them and have them submit their own nomination to us.

The process for self-nomination is simple: send an email to Matthias (msteiner@ucar.edu) and me (mfronzak@mitre.org) that contains (1) a 1-2 paragraph expression of interest in serving on the FPAW SC, including information about why you should be selected, (2) the constituency (Providers, RED and Academia, Regulators, Users) that you would be representing, and (3) a current CV/resume. That’s it!

Self-nominations for the five open FPAW SC slots will be accepted through COB EDT on Friday, August 30, 2024. As soon as possible after that, we will communicate the slate of candidates to the entire FPAW community. No later than mid-September, the FPAW SC will select the individuals who will fill the four open slots, and we will welcome them to the FPAW SC shortly thereafter.

We hope you’ll consider joining us and helping to shape the future of aviation weather!

Matt Fronzak and Matthias Steiner

FPAW Co-Chairs

Good day, all.

Here is information that may be of interest to some, perhaps many, of you. I think that Gus would assert that it should be of interest to everyone :).

Matt Fronzak and Matthias Steiner
FPAW Co-Chairs

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Dear FPAW Members,

This September, Oklahoma State University and the Oklahoma Aerospace Institute for Research and Education (OAIRE) are hosting the conference for the International Society for Atmospheric Research using Remotely Piloted Aircraft (ISARRA) in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

As you may remember from Jamey Jacob and James Pinto's combined presentation in the FPAW Spring meeting, the conference (SEP/03 - SEP/06) will be followed by a large field experiment combining Mesoscale and Urban Microscale objectives.

If you are interested in submitting your work, visit our call for abstracts and submit your work.

Conference registration and travel information will be posted soon on this year's website.

All the best,

Gustavo B. H. de Azevedo