Real-Time METAR
Live NOAA + FAA ingestion with decoding for visibility, ceiling, runway state, and flight category badges.
Certified aviation weather stack
SkyVOK – Sky and Visibility OK
Node.js meets aviation meteorology: decode METAR in real time, project TAF forecasts, replay historical weather, and surface insights through a responsive Tailwind + Flowbite UI backed by PostgreSQL.
Operational guarantees
2.1M+ decoded METAR strings / day
Streaming ingest, FAA + NOAA redundancy.
For dispatchers & devs
ICAO lookup + JSON APIs
Hand off to ops tools or your own apps.
Built for pro flight operations
Key capabilities inside SkyBack
Every module is optimized for sub‑second loads, clean Tailwind UI, and total parity between web and API responses.
TAF Forecasts
Timeline-ready parsing with segments, probability windows, and raw text copy for dispatch releases.
Historical Weather Archive
Replay any METAR in seconds thanks to PostgreSQL-backed caching and multi-region cold storage.
ICAO Station Database
Granular metadata with runway layouts, elevation, and nearest-station search to support alternates.
Why we built SkyBack
Flight departments needed a fast, trustworthy alternative to legacy weather portals. SkyBack couples a lightweight Node.js/Express backend with PostgreSQL caching and Flowbite-powered components so dispatchers, meteorologists, and pilots always see reliable, synchronized METAR and TAF data. Every request is health-checked, retried, and versioned—speed without sacrificing aviation-grade accuracy.
99.95%
Cache uptime SLA
< 50 ms
Median response time
Global
ICAO coverage footprint