Hello,Is there an aviation weather website that will give you a good weather briefing, if you type in Departure and Destination Airports, and maybe your route?Thanks!Barry

Barry,This is an excellent site: http://www.dispatcher.org/brief/adfbrief.htmlThe ADDS part of the briefing will get you all the weather info you may need for ICOA airport in the world.This site http://squall.sfsu.edu/crws/jetstream.html will help you with winds around the world.Hope this helpsBob

Thanks Bob!Nice to hear from you. Hope all is well!Barry

Hi Barry, all is OK, hope to get some good flying in during the holidays.Bob

Of course you culd also get Activesky 4.5 from www.hifisim.com which not only gives you the info you have requested but provides the weather as well. It's payware but well worth it.

Thanks Rob,I have Active Sky 4.5 and it is awesome. What I am looking for is a weather briefing like you would get if you called a Flight Service Station. It tells you the weather and winds along the route at different altitudes. Maybe there is away to get this out of Active Sky. I believe Active Sky gives you the winds for your planned altitude. I want to use it in the flight planning process so I can optimize fuel consumption by increasing the ground speed based on the winds. It would be interesting to see if the extra fuel consumed in the climb out ways level flight with the wind variation.Maybe there is some good flight planning software that will do this automatically?Thanks!Barry

If you are a pilot or student pilot there is always DUAT and DUATS. If not this government site goes in order of a standard brief (of course you must enter the airports manually).http://aviationweather.gov/std_brief/

Thanks for the reply!I am looking for something that gives you winds along your route...Barry

weathertap.com is what I use sometimes. It costs a small monthly fee but there are some really cool features, especially if you're a storm chaser.

If you load the weather you are going to use into AS, you can then fetch some points along your way and the winds aloft (with temps)will display (all in the lower section).If you are going trans-continental then you will need different reports for ocean crossings.What is important, though, if you are using AS is how AS sees the winds aloft as that is what affects your flight. AS no longer requires you to load your flightplan into it.Another problem may be is that AS interpolates your loaded weather allowing for aging as you fly. I'm not at home right now but I'm not sure if the lower window tracks your flight keeping the aloft reports up to date so you can request altitude changes based on current weather.

Did I read your post correctly?You don't need to load your flight plan in to AS 2004.5 for wind smoothing?Are you sure?Barry

Since there is more in the world then the US, do you know of a good same quality weather site for the rest of the globe?Johan[A HREF=http://jdserver.no-ip.com]Personal Server[/A]or..http://62.238.33.10

Hi Johan,As I said in my first reply to Barry this site: http://adds.aviationweather.gov/ will give you a metar for any airport in the entire world.This site: http://www.intellicast.com/ will allow you to look at weather everywhere.Bob

Hi Barry,Wtih the new wind control developments in FSUIPC and AS you do not need to load and process a flightplan. We even removed some Options on the Options page to mark this.Hope this helps,JimActiveSky Supporthttp://www.hifisim.com/images/as2004proudsupporter.jpg

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