An aircraft report (AIREP), colloquially air report, is a message from an in-flight aircraft to a ground station. These reports describe
weather conditions in the upper layers of the
atmosphere. AIREPs are prepared in conformity with requirements for position and operational and/or
meteorological reporting and are also the name for coding of the report, being encoded according to the AFMAN manual 15-124 pages 32-35.
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