Hi all. Can anyone tell me how I can find out what FS2004's weather engine is going to give me with regards to winds aloft? I always have something like a 25 kt wind at 35000ft. It really screws up the flight planning because I cant take into account the winds at cruising altitude! FS seems to randomly generate winds aloft, but it would be nice to know what its gonna throw at me!When I finally get an internet connection, and can use online weather, where can I get real world airport and enroute weather for the USA, UK and oceana???Thanksrici

When you use real world weather use...The NOAA Aviation weather centre when in the UShttp://aviationweather.gov/products/nws/fdwinds/And Navcanada's flightplanning section when in Canadahttp://www.flightplanning.navcanada.cabut I can't be of any help for the UK and Oceana, however I'm sure there are similar websites for those regions.All the best,

Weather programs like ActiveSky and FSMeteo do this for you automatically. I am a current ActiveSky user, and you can print out the upper level winds at each point, as well as temperature. Makes flight planning much faster. ActiveSky also gives an average of all the upper level wind speeds and strengths along your route.

Thanks! Yeah, I'm using active sky now, great!Ok, so with real world winds aloft, looking at this example:http://aviationweather.gov/products/nws/fd...oston_fd1.shtmlwhat on earth do all the numbers mean!!!How do I tell what the winds aloft are over the atlantic or pacific? I looked at the SIGWX charts on the above site, but that didn't provide any specifics im confused. richard

FT 3000 6000 9000 12000 18000 24000 30000 34000 39000BDL 2614 2723+06 2632+01 2634-05 2638-17 2651-28 265743 266647 266649The above is a snip from your link.FT is for the altitudes along the top, 3000ft, 6000ft, 9000ft ect.BDL is the wind station2723+06 is: wind direction=270, wind speed=23, temperature=+6 CAfter a point the + or - is not added and is assumed to be -C.Winds over the oceans are a little more difficult due to the lack of reporting stations. Pretty sure there are charts at AWC.Hope this helps,JimActiveSky Supporthttp://www.hifisim.com/images/as2004proudsupporter.jpg

Wind direction from 270 at 23 kts.MSFS2004 has a weather setup where you can set your winds aloft between altitudes and adjust them according to altitude.Try this for a pictorial winds aloft view. http://www.weather.com/maps/activity/aviat...loft_large.htmlIt does not list over the Atlantic though.

Active Sky smoothly blends direction and speed when moving from one altitude to the next.Hope this helps,JimActiveSky Supporthttp://www.hifisim.com/images/as2004proudsupporter.jpg

Jim,It's also important to note that winds aloft are given in degrees true of polar north and not magnetic degrees from the magnetic pole. This may not be much of difference in some mid-latitude areas, but once you get to high latitude areas, the difference is significant.For the original poster, if you want to easily see all aspects of FS weather other than using ActiveSky, give Pete Dowson's WeatherSet utility a try. It is packaged as a separate utility inside the FSUIPC zipfile and provides a real time perspective of all of the weather settings. It's available at http://www.schiratti.com/files/dowson/FSUI...imestamp=180204Bruce

brilliant! Thanks for your help all!