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Maverick WXAlertTM
Real-time weather hazard alerts with route optimizations via ACARS support a clear path forward, even in low or no connectivity scenarios.
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Confidently navigate weather hazards and optimize routes, even with limited connectivity
Each year, enroute impacts like turbulence and crosswinds lead directly to operational disruptions, impacting everything from passenger comfort to your budget and brand reputation. While you can’t control in-flight weather, the inability to communicate weather challenges to flight crews no longer has to be a source of operational uncertainty.
The solution: Maverick WXAlertTM turns complex atmospheric data into a decisive operational advantage with an end-to-end, workflow-integrated solution. It delivers clear, reliable notifications of enroute weather challenges, offering situational awareness for pilots even when cockpit connectivity is limited.
Our proprietary alerting technology is built on a foundation of proven, accurate data, providing a decisive operational advantage. The system combines industry-leading turbulence forecast modeling and forecaster-issued alerts (SIGMETs/FPGs) with real-time EDR reports and our exclusive TAPS™ system. This powerful synthesis allows for timely and precise guidance to be delivered directly to the cockpit.
Operational challenges
Managing turbulence-related risk
Clear-air turbulence (CAT) is becoming more frequent and severe, in part due to a changing climate. This new reality requires the aviation industry to adopt a smarter, more proactive approach to risk management. Maverick WXAlert helps reduce the impact of enroute weather challenges so aviation teams can overcome:
- The high cost of weather: Turbulence, crosswinds, and IROPs cost the industry millions annually in delays, repairs, and bottom-line impact.
- Unreliable, inaccurate data: Subjective pilot turbulence forecast reports and non-specific government alerts can leave crews without the exact location and severity of enroute threats.
- A critical data lag: By the time flight crews receive manual reports — especially with poor connectivity — the data is often obsolete, since atmospheric conditions have often changed.
- Fragmented operational views: When pilots, dispatchers, and controllers lack a shared, real-time picture, it leads to inefficient routing, wasted contingency fuel, and increased safety risks.
Maverick WXAlert: Fly with elevated confidence
Our workflow-integrated solution helps you operate proactively. Reduce impacts and mitigate costs from rough air with timely, precise ACARS messaging.
Benefits
Resilient ACARS cockpit communication
Bridge the information gap by providing real-time turbulence EDR updates to the cockpit via ACARS — even when in-flight connectivity is limited.
Improved safety
Drive certainty about the location, extent, and severity of en-route weather hazards to reduce crew and passenger impacts.
Synchronized notifications
Automatically alert the dispatcher and pilots simultaneously when the flight is projected to intersect an en-route weather hazard.
Tactical enroute decision-making
Gain enhanced situational awareness with alerts for crosswind limits and more to build confidence, collaboration, and sharpen decision making in all flight phases.
Mitigated IROP costs
Manage IROPs scenarios leading to ballooning operational disruption costs by guiding pilots on optimal diversion alternates.
Common situational awareness
Help keep all airline operational stakeholders on the same page with Pilotbrief, Fusion, as well as aviation APIs – curated to an airline’s specific needs.
Let’s talk
To learn more about how Maverick WXAlert offers situational awareness to pilots, even in limited and no connectivity scenarios, contact our aviation experts today.
Contact usFrequently asked questions
Maverick WXAlert is a workflow-integrated aviation solution from The Weather Company that delivers precise, real-time alerts for turbulence, crosswinds, proprietary SIGMETs, and IROPs directly to cockpits via ACARS — even when cockpit connectivity is limited.
Clear-air turbulence (CAT) is an invisible atmospheric hazard that occurs in cloudless skies without visual warning. It’s increasing in frequency and severity due to climate change, with severe CAT rising 55% over the North Atlantic in recent decades.
Maverick WXAlert combines multiple atmospheric data sources — including industry-leading turbulence forecast modeling, EDR, PIREPs, TAPS, and proprietary SIGMETs — into synchronized, customizable alerts delivered via ACARS to both pilots and dispatchers the moment severe enroute weather hazards are detected, enabling operational awareness regardless of cockpit connectivity.
By providing real-time turbulence and weather hazard intelligence, Maverick WXAlert enables proactive route adjustments that help airlines maximize safety and minimize ballooning IROPs cost while avoiding injury claims, delays, diversions, structural inspections, and cascading network disruptions.
The Weather Company is the world’s most accurate forecaster,1 combining proprietary modeling with real-time crowdsourced data (EDR, TAPS) verified continuously by expert aviation meteorologists 24/7/365 — turning atmospheric complexity into decisive intelligence.
For support with Maverick WXAlert, please call 978.983.6325.
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1 ForecastWatch, Global and Regional Weather Forecast Accuracy Overview, 2021-2024, commissioned by The Weather Company.