Hi, 2 Things!1) I am looking for weather charts for the North Pacific Ocean, and also the Bering Sea and also loooking for the tracks used, for example the ones used going from Vancouver to Honolulu (ACA047) 2) And also im looking for a tool that can tell me the given temperature and wind speed and direction at the way points in any given flight plan, is there a website or tool i can get/buy if needed?Regards James :( Canada/QC

Flight Keeper's ACARS device can give you METARS for any point on your flight plan, but I'm not sure it could do it over water, since there wouldn't be any weather reporting stations it could get a weather report from in the middle of an ocean. Most reasonably up to weather add-ons can give you that too, but FK does have the advantage of being able to do it direct from a cockpit instrument while in flight.Al

... I'm not sure it could do it over water, since there wouldn't be any weather reporting stations ...

I believe there are weather ships widely spaced along the ocean tracks. (Forgive any incorrect terminology.)

Hi,For FS04 ASv6.5 or ASAFor FSX ASX or ASA

The ICAO certainly did use to have a lot of weather ships, but as far as I'm aware they don't have any now (or at least not very many), I think they tend to use data from low earth orbit satellites these days.But I was really referring to whether FS and Flight Keeper picks up that data en route, and I'm not absolutely sure that it does. But since I rarely do oceanic crossings in FS I can't recall whether FK picked up such METARS reliably on the fly. If I had to take a guess, I'd say it probably could, since it is usually excellent on winds aloft route data, but I don't want to steer someone wrong into buying FK if it cannot do what exactly they want.Al

The ICAO certainly did use to have a lot of weather ships, but as far as I'm aware they don't have any now (or at least not very many), I think they tend to use data from low earth orbit satellites these days.But I was really referring to whether FS and Flight Keeper picks up that data en route, and I'm not absolutely sure that it does. But since I rarely do oceanic crossings in FS I can't recall whether FK picked up such METARS reliably on the fly. If I had to take a guess, I'd say it probably could, since it is usually excellent on winds aloft route data, but I don't want to steer someone wrong into buying FK if it cannot do what exactly they want.Al

I would give Active Sky a try. It picks up METARS on the fly, if you've imported a flight plan it knows where the relevant reporting stations are, and it interpolates between them for smooth weather transitions. Jim Skorna can tell us for sure whether it really will treat the Atlantic and Pacific weather ships as to METARS.

Unfortunately, the last weather ships were retired over 25 years ago. The last being one operated by Denamrk in the Atlantic. The last ship in the Pacific, 4YP, known as Papa Boat, was retired in the very early 1980's. Today's winds and temperatures over the oceans are drawn from a combination of satellite and atmospheric models corrected based on reports from aircraft.