Flyht Aerospace, Longair, Met Office collaborate to improve weather forecasts

A collaboration between the Met Office, FLYHT Aerospace Solutions and Loganair, aims to improve the accuracy of weather forecasts and the prediction of localised severe weather in the UK,with expected benefits for the aviation industry such as more efficient route planning and supporting aims to reduce CO2 emissions. The partnership provides the Met Office with FLYHT-WVSS-II atmospheric water vapour sensors to be installed on Loganair Embraer 145 aircraft flying across the UK. The sensors will continuously monitor environmental conditions around the aircraft during flight. The Met Office is particularly interested in data collected during the ascent and descent phases of flight as this will provide a view of humidity, temperature, and wind measurements throughout the atmosphere. The use of this increase in observational data, is only possible because of the new Met Office supercomputer, which is coming online early in 2024. It will ultimately improve the forecasting of local scale weather. The relative humidity sensors will be fully integrated with FLYHT’s Certus SatCom and AFIRS Edge multi-channel WQAR for real-time data transmission of aircraft-based observations.