# Maverick WXAlert™  
from The Weather Company  
aviation solutions

Each year, enroute weather challenges like turbulence, crosswinds, and scenarios leading to costly operational disruptions (IROPS) impact the aviation industry. As a result, airlines face hundreds of millions of dollars in injury claims, lost revenue, aircraft repairs, sensitive cargo damage, and lost revenue as a result.

## Key challenges

– Airlines rely on subjective, verbal pilot reports (PIREPs) of turbulence, often delayed and imprecise in location.

– Government-issued turbulence SIGMETs and Significant Weather guidance are not airframe or flight-segment specific, leading to uncertainty about the location, extent, and severity of enroute impacts.

– Flight crews, controllers, and dispatchers do not always access the same information, hampering decision making.

– Uncertainty leads to extra contingency fuel and suboptimal altitude and route planning, all of which drive profit erosion from the planned flight.

## TM Maverick WXAlert helps you:

Alert messages are generated when a flight is projected to intersect an enroute hazard

– Improve safety  
– Boost efficiency  
– Reduce maintenance inspections  
– Increase passenger comfort  
– Enhance operational analysis  
– Strengthen tactical decision-making for all enroute hazards

At the core of Maverick WXAlert is a unique synthesis of real-time EDR data, high-resolution weather modeling, and the expertise of aviation meteorologists. Fusing these inputs with proven ACARS technology, the system delivers timely and precise alerts for critical hazards directly to the cockpit.

## Key features of Maverick WXAlert

### Objective turbulence data

Timely, precise reporting of turbulence location and severity

– Leverages real-time, objective EDR and TAPS data  
– Provides precise reporting of turbulence location and severity from a vast network of participating aircraft, replacing subjective and imprecise verbal pilot reports  
– Reports simple severity categories as well as airframe-specific EDR parameters

### Beyond turbulence

Expanded hazard alerting

– Enable a wider range of weather alerts, powered by the Maverick platform’s condition manager  
– Gain enhanced situational awareness with alerts for crosswind limits, proprietary SIGMETs, and PIREPs  
– Receive critical IROPS intelligence, including weather impacting flight plans  
– Build confidence, collaboration, and sharpen decision making in all flight phases

### Turbulence advisory

Fill critical information gaps and operational blind spots

– Issues a moderate or higher turbulence PIREP, EDR, or TAPS report prior to SIGMET or FPG amendments  
– Indicates the severity and 3D airspace impacted clearly

### Enroute Hazard SIGMETs and Flight Plan Guidance (FPGs)

Precise, incisive, and actionable view of turbulence impacts

– Provides timely alerting to mitigate impacts of emerging significant hazards  
– Tailored for transport class aircraft to optimize altitude and route plans  
– Created using extensive global observations, publicly-available and proprietary PIREPs, as well as The Weather Company’s own weather modeling  
– Flight-following solutions: Real-time alerting and optimal planning for turbulence, crosswinds, and IROP scenarios  
– Fusion Replay: On-demand post-event analysis  
– Pilotbrief: Preflight and in-flight crew awareness

## Decision support integration

Enables stakeholders to operate on the same page

– Aviation APIs: Enterprise data services curated and formatted to specific airline needs

## Service-level meets flight-critical requirements

– Fully managed and supported  
– Redundant, active data center architecture  
– Premium Service Level available

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