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Offline galfert

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Heliport
« on: April 17, 2019, 05:00:52 PM »
There is a relatively new medical center type small hospital that opened about 5 years ago very near me. I just realized they have a heliport. It shows up on Windy when you click on Airports.
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https://www.windy.com/FA96?28.733,-81.473,10,i:pressure

https://oviedomedicalcenter.com/

Strange thing is there seems to be no weather data. So why is it on the map? Says no METAR but maybe it has some other kind of weather reporting. I think it would be neat to get this heliports weather data ...if it has any. Anyone know if there is somewhere else on the Internet I could look to find this?  Who knows...maybe there is no weather station there but somehow shows up on the map for some reason.

Seems like the Heliport is named FA96. I don't know if that is an official name or something Windy decided to label it.
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Re: Heliport
« Reply #1 on: April 17, 2019, 05:29:28 PM »

I think it would be neat to get this heliports weather data ...if it has any.

Seems like the Heliport is named FA96. I don't know if that is an official name or something Windy decided to label it.
There is none. Stand alone heliports (not associated with a fixed wing airport) usually only have a lighted windsock for the pilot to use. FA96 is the FAA identifier which all airports and heliports that aren't private have (and some of those may too).

http://www.airnav.com/airport/FA96

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Re: Heliport
« Reply #2 on: April 17, 2019, 07:57:52 PM »
Great, thank you! Oh well no weather.
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Re: Heliport
« Reply #3 on: July 31, 2019, 10:49:23 AM »
At Windy, we are using data from http://ourairports.com.