Was looking for a time now for a small application to display METAR data, as a way to get near real-time weather update.
This weekend i had a bit more time at disposal and tried my luck with c# and this is what i made so far.
This is an alpha release (it may be the last one if I will be satisfied with what it makes so far 
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It’s very simple. It may download decoded data, or raw METAR (saves expensive bytes:) ) if you know how to read them. And you can get those updates at a regular time (1,5,15 or 30 minutes).
It’s been tested only on XP and WM 5.0 and 6.0 and i found no bugs so far.
If there are some future requests please leave a comment.
And the download link for the brave hearted : Metar Mobile 0.1 - First alpha release, 102 Downloads
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Tivda Stefan
on May 12th, 2009
@ 11:54 am:
Hi,
If you could make to see multiple airports it would be very interesting.
Contact me on the email address.
Are you romanian?
Stefan
max
on May 12th, 2009
@ 1:08 pm:
Yes,
I’m Romanian.
I made this small app mainly to know the conditions on the local airport. I fly rc planes and our field is just beside the airport.
But if you find the app usefull for you, i can try to make the necessary adjustments.
Tell me exactly how do you see the multiple airports thingie working and i’ll do my best.
Catalin
alasdair
on May 14th, 2009
@ 3:51 pm:
I really like your idea and I think you may have a winner. I have been waiting for an app like this to com a long time! Now if only I could get it working…
I just get the message “update failed”
What am I doing wrong?
admin
on May 14th, 2009
@ 4:25 pm:
Hi,
Make sure you have a working data connection (internet, not wap) before updating . It should work.
Test it on your PC to see how it works.
In a future ‘version’ i will try to connect automatically to the internet to fetch METAR data.
There is a v0.2 available with only a few modifications. http://me-likey.net/2009/05/metar-mobile-v02/
Hope you will get it working and looking forward for your modification requests