skeyes - TAF (IWXXM) 1.0
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Abstract

This service provides the latest TAF reports in IWXXM for the Belgian and Luxembourg civil aerodromes in compliance with ICAO Annex 3. Information can be retrieved by one of the following:Request /Reply via an EDR interface, whereby the reply contains the whole IWXXM datasetSubscription via AMQP 1.0 whereby the message contains the whole IWXXM dataset

Service Type
SWIM_COMPLIANT
Life Cycle
OPERATIONAL
Business Activity Type
COMMUNICATION_NAVIGATION_SURVEILLANCE
AIRSPACE_ORGANISATION_AND_MANAGEMENT
INFORMATION_MANAGEMENT
SERVICE_DELIVERY_MANAGEMENT
Intended Consumer
AIR_TRAFFIC_SERVICE_PROVIDER
AIRPORT_OPERATOR
AIRSIDE_GROUND_HANDLER
CIVIL_AIR_NAVIGATION_SERVICE_PROVIDER
CIVIL_AIRSPACE_USER
COMMUNICATION_NAVIGATION_AND_SURVEILLANCE_SERVICE_PROVIDER
MILITARY_AIR_NAVIGATION_SERVICE_PROVIDER
MILITARY_AIRSPACE_USER
PROVIDER_OF_DATA_SERVICES
REGULATED_METEOROLOGICAL_SERVICE_PROVIDER
Information Exchange Category
METEOROLOGICAL_INFORMATION_EXCHANGE
SWIM_INFRASTRUCTURE_EXCHANGE
Application Message Exchange Pattern Entity
Request/Reply
Aerodrome ICAO Location Indicator
EBBR
EBAW
EBOS
EBCI
EBLG
ELLX
FIR ICAO Location Indicator
EBBU
State ICAO Nationality Letters
EB
Geospatial Categorisation Description
The dataset is valid for Belgium
Other
Service Type: METEOROLOGICAL_FEATURE_ACCESS_SERVICE
In-Operation Date
01-Jun-2026
Provider
SKEYES

Skeyes is an autonomous public company in charge of the safety of air traffic in the civil airspace for which the Belgian State is responsible. Our company fulfils this mission while optimising costs and punctuality, increasing capacity and ensuring the sustainable development of air traffic. Skeyes provides all the essential services to manage and control the air traffic safely

We provide the following services:

  • ATM - Air traffic management and air traffic control
  • Technology : infrastructure and systems of ATM data processing, Communication, Navigation, Surveillance and Meteo
  • AIM and Meteo : aeronautical information and meteorological information services
Provider Type
REGULATED_METEOROLOGICAL_SERVICE_PROVIDER
Point of Contact
Operational needs

The service is provided in accordance with:

  • ICAO Annex 3, Meteorological Service for International Air Navigation, and the PANS-MET, Procedures for Air Navigation Services, Meteorology, Doc 10157, from November 2025
  • EU regulation 2021/116 (CP1), AF 5 System Wide Information management
  • EU regulation 2017/373 Annex V
Information Exchange Requirements

IER 1 - The information currently included in the TAF reports as defined in Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/373, ICAO Annex 3 Amdt 82 and PANS-MET.

Capabilities

The service provides high quality, up-to-date, trusted, regulated meteorological information in digital form for use by service consumers within the aviation domain.

Distribute Data

The service distributes the data according:

  • to the request
  • to the stored subscriptions and topic
Request Data

The consumer is able to request the data provided by the service using the OGC EDR API.

Subscribe to Data

The user is able to subscribe to data via AMQPS, if already subscribed through the skeyes MET SWIM customer service.

Subscription

Consumers need to contact skeyes via the MET SWIM customer service

Encryption

Confidentiality and integrity is assured by point-to-point encryption in accordance with the SWIM Technical Infrastructure (TI) Yellow Profile, through the use of Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.2 or above.

The certificate is provided by the EACP.

Authentication and authorization

The service ensures consumer authentication in accordance with EUROCONTROL Specification for SWIM Technical Infrastructure (TI) Yellow Profile requirement SWIM-TIYP-0042.

The service ensures provider authentication in accordance with EUROCONTROL Specification for SWIM Technical Infrastructure (TI) Yellow Profile requirement SWIM-TIYP-0042.

The service ensures that satisfactory authorisation is put in place according to EUROCONTROL Specification for SWIM Technical Infrastructure (TI) Yellow Profile requirement SWIM-TIYP-0070.

Information Retainment

According to ICAO Annex 3 the meteorological information is retained for a period of at least 30 days from the date of issue. This relates to the information itself and not the request time of the customer.

Performance

operational with provisional quality (benchmarking phase)

Reliability

operational with provisional quality (benchmarking phase)

Security

operational with provisional quality (benchmarking phase)

AIRM

ATM Information Reference Model

AMQP

Advanced Message Queuing Protocol

ATC

Air Traffic Control

ATM

Air Traffic Management

EACP

European Aviation Common PKI

HTTP

Hypertext Transfer Protocol

ICAO

International Civil Aviation Organization

IER

Information Exchange Requirement

IR

Implementation Rules

ISRM

Information Service Reference Model

IWXXM

ICAO Meteorological Information Exchange Model

METAR

Meteorological Aerodrome Report

NWS

National Weather Service

OGC

Open Geospatial Consortium

PCP

Pilot Common Project

WMO

World Meteorological Organization

SIGMET

significant meteorological phenomena

TAF

Terminal Aerodrome Forecast

AMO

Aerodrome Meteorological Office

AMS

Aeronautical Meteorological Station

EDR

Environmental Data Retrieval

MEP

Message Exchange Pattern

PANS-MET

ICAO Procedures for Air Navigation Services - Meteorology

TIYP

Technical Infrastructure Yellow Profile

TI

Technical Infrastructure

Information
Filtering Capabilities OGC EDR

The EDR implementation builds on MET3SG community MET SWIM OGC EDR GUIDANCE. Additionally it supports OGC EDR filtering machanisms: cube query using a bbox parameter, area query with a polygon specified in coords parameter, radius query.

Filtering Capabilities AMQP

Simple filtering is achieved using the topic structure of the broker, which determines the type of data recieved. AMQP SQL-like syntax for filters applied to AMQP application properties can be also used by the service consumer to further filter the data received.

The service provider ensures that the data offered within this service is created by SKEYES, a REGULATED_METEOROLOGICAL_SERVICE_PROVIDER.
SSL Certificate

The user needs to have a valid SSL Certificate issued by a trusted Certificate Authority

Request/Reply

 EDR Response codes

EDR Response code Code Meaning Impact and suggested actions
200 (OK) The request is successful. Expected behaviour, you can access the data.
302 (Found) Redirect status response code indicating that the resource requested has been temporarily moved to the URL given by the Location header.

Expected behaviour for retrieving {itemId} payloads. Follow this redirect to pick up your payload.
401 (Unauthorized Request) You are not authorised to access the service because our server requires user authentication. You cannot access the data due to invalid authorisation. Please check that your authorisation token is valid and has not expired, and try again.
403 (Forbidden) The request has been rejected because you do not have the rights to access or view the content. You cannot access the data due to invalid authorisation. Please check that your authorisation token is valid and has not expired, and try again.
404 (Not Found) The request is invalid. You cannot access the data because your request is not formulated correctly. Please check the validity of your request against the SADIS API - User Guide, Section 2.2 and Chapter 4.
408 (Request Timeout) The request you sent to the system took longer than the server was prepared to wait. You cannot access the data. Please try again. It is very unlikely that you encounter this error code. If the error persists, please contact our Support teams.
500 (Internal Server) While the request appears to be valid, the server failed to complete it. You cannot access the data. Please try again. If the error persists, please contact our Support teams.
502 (Bad Gateway) While the request appears to be valid, the server failed to complete it. You cannot access the data. Please try again. If the error persists, please contact our Support teams.
504 (Gateway Timeout) While the request appears to be valid, the server failed to complete it. You cannot access the data. Please try again. If the error persists, please contact our Support teams.
OGC EDR Request Interface

Allows the service consumer to request the latest available TAF via OGC API - EDR.

PROVIDER_SIDE
Operations
SWIM_TI_YP_2_0_WS_LIGHT

The WS Light Interface Binding as detailed in the EUROCONTROL Specification for SWIM Technical Infrastructure Yellow Profile, edition 2.0.

EDR Request
EDR Reply
AMQP Distribution Interface

Allows the service provider to distribute the latest available TAFs, meeting the need of the service consumer that has subscribed for updates.

PROVIDER_SIDE
Operations
Publish

The requested information is contained directly in the AMQP message

Idempotent
IDEMPOTENT
Operation Message
AMQP Message
AMQP base endpoint

The base endpoint for AMQP subscriptions, from which AMQP messages may be retrieved

Url

amqps://met-swim.skeyes.be:5671

SWIM_TI_YP_2_0_AMQP_MESSAGING

The AMQP_MESSAGING Interface Binding as detailed in the EUROCONTROL Specification for SWIM Technical Infrastructure Yellow Profile, edition 2.0

AMQP Message
References
AMQP

Advanced Message Queuing Protocol

Revision Save Date
Tue, 06/02/2026 - 13:49
Schema version
v2