Briefing

There are two general types of briefings, Area Briefings and Route Briefings.  Area Briefings provide information about weather, adverse conditions, and other information specific to a particular geographic location, such as an airport.  Route briefings provide legal briefing information along a specified route of flight. An example of a command to get a route briefing is below.  You'll note that it is similar to many of the other types of filings:

$ /usr/bin/curl -k -A "Mozilla/5.0" -i -c cookies/cookies. --header "Authorization: Basic bWVAbGV0bWVpbi5jb206TXlQYXNzdzByZCE=" --data "type=DOMESTIC&flightRules=VFR&aircraftIdentifier=DOMC&departure=HOU&destination=MIA&departureInstant=2015-03-04T15:06:00.0&flightDuration=PT1H30M&route=LEV%20Q102%20CYY%20SSCOT&altDestination1=LAX&altDestination2=SEA&briefingType=SIMPLE&altitudeFL=35&routeCorridorWidth=100&includeCodedMessages=true" "http://www.elabs.testafss.net/Website2/rest/FP/routeBriefing" -v

Currently the only un-deprecated briefing type is SIMPLE.  The output of the briefing text is too long to be useful in this this format but has the following conventions:

Note that both Area and Route Briefings provide support for plaintext translation.  This makes the typically cryptic notifications in a briefing easier to read.  You can get this data by setting the plaintext parameter to true.  Also, If LMFS has not received any Weather Data for 1-15 minutes, a warning note will appear in the notices section of a route/area briefing: ” Weather/NOTAM data may not be current due to loss of incoming data at [Zulu time] Z. A recheck of data prior to departure may be warranted.”  After 15 minutes of no weather data, the web service will return a failure status with the error message “No Weather/NOTAM data currently available due to loss of incoming data at [time] Z. You may file a flight plan or access the system later for full service.”  Once weather is recovered the warning will no longer display in the briefing (if <15 minutes) or the briefings will resume processing with success as true and the briefing will include a message indicating that there had been a weather outage in the notices section.