Hello, Friends and Partners.
We are eight short days away from what promises to be an exciting, one-of-a-kind FPAW Meeting. Between speakers coming to us from under the shadow of Mt. Everest, to deep dives into the sausage making that results in a METAR, to solving real-life METAR mysteries with a dozen of your best aviation weather friends, this meeting appears to me to be intent on raising the FPAW meeting quality bar even higher than it already is.
And if the excellent meeting discussions and debates aren't quite enough to bring you out to Logan, UT, look at what you get to experience by joining us in person:
- A Dirty Data Mixer sponsored by Campbell Scientific at the end of the meeting's opening day on Tuesday.
- An opportunity to recognize FPAW leadership midafternoon on Wednesday.
- A tour of the Campbell Scientific's Instrumentation Garden and Manufacturing Facility later that afternoon.
- Time to break bread Wednesday evening in the basement (AKA, brewing area) of Prodigy Brewing.
- More hair-raising tales delivered by four veteran pilots about flying in complex conditions Thursday morning.
The latest version of the agenda is now posted on the Fall 2025 FPAW Meeting website here, and it is as firmed up as it can be, given the looming specter of government shutdown in 30+ hours. Fear not, however. The show (or, in this case, the meeting) MUST and WILL go on, regardless.
So, get off the fence and join the 146 of us who have already registered. But hurry, and especially if you're planning to do so in the flesh. In-person registration will close on Wednesday, October 1, 2025 at 1700E. Remote registration will be available through Friday, October 3, 2025 at 1700E. After that, you'll have to use the FPAW Contact link to request last-minute registration.
Matt Fronzak
FPAW Co-Chair