September 5, 20205 yr Hi All I have recently got a subscription to Navigraph and it has really transformed my flight planning and all round understanding of flight procedures on my flights. I feel that at the moment though I have a missing link in that I plan my flights with no detailed information as to the weather conditions I will encounter. (Even though all we get is 225 @ 3 with real world weather!) The most I'm doing is using the excellent Windy App which I know is very accurate to get a feel for the weather. But I know I should be thinking about winds, clouds, icing etc. I'm flying the Bonanza mostly at the moment. From a flight planning stand point what do the rest of you do? Also, when looking at alternate fields what sort of distance is recommended in the real world? Many thanks Matt Flying since the early days of 386’s! 😀 Web developer, sailor, nerd. Contributor to the G36 Improvement Project PC Specs: Intel i9-9900K on a Aorus Z390 // Pro Wifi motherboard // 32GB Corsair Vengeance Ram, 2x16, 3200mhz DDR4 // RTX3070 Gigabyte, Eagle OC 8GB // WD Blue SN550 (2400) NVMe SSD // 2x LG QHD Monitors, (27QN600) Discord Username: CaptMatto#7935
September 5, 20205 yr You can go with a ForeFlight basic plan or SkyDemon and they will give weather on your iPad for a pretty reasonable yearly subscription, plus a lot of other info. Robert Yunque PilotEdge Ratings = CAT-11 (2016-09-13) I-11 (2016-10-23) V-3 (2016-08-01)
September 6, 20205 yr Author 14 hours ago, signmanbob said: You can go with a ForeFlight basic plan or SkyDemon and they will give weather on your iPad for a pretty reasonable yearly subscription, plus a lot of other info. Not sure the budget can stretch to another subscription sadly. I suppose I need to look at weather in the flight planning stage rather than enroute. I currently use the windy app (https://www.windy.com/?50.371,-4.143,5) which is good for getting an idea on winds and clouds etc. Does anyone know of other weather apps that are good globally? Flying since the early days of 386’s! 😀 Web developer, sailor, nerd. Contributor to the G36 Improvement Project PC Specs: Intel i9-9900K on a Aorus Z390 // Pro Wifi motherboard // 32GB Corsair Vengeance Ram, 2x16, 3200mhz DDR4 // RTX3070 Gigabyte, Eagle OC 8GB // WD Blue SN550 (2400) NVMe SSD // 2x LG QHD Monitors, (27QN600) Discord Username: CaptMatto#7935
September 6, 20205 yr Author I've just discovered LittleNavMap has a metar available when clicking on each airport. 🙂 Flying since the early days of 386’s! 😀 Web developer, sailor, nerd. Contributor to the G36 Improvement Project PC Specs: Intel i9-9900K on a Aorus Z390 // Pro Wifi motherboard // 32GB Corsair Vengeance Ram, 2x16, 3200mhz DDR4 // RTX3070 Gigabyte, Eagle OC 8GB // WD Blue SN550 (2400) NVMe SSD // 2x LG QHD Monitors, (27QN600) Discord Username: CaptMatto#7935
September 6, 20205 yr 17 minutes ago, Matt Barraud said: I've just discovered LittleNavMap has a metar available when clicking on each airport. 🙂 It won't really mean much though if the weather in the Sim is grossly incorrect and is nothing like real world weather Wayne such Asus Hero Z690, Gigabyte Aorus Master 5080, I914900K, Kraken 360 AIO CPU Cooled, 96 GIGS Corsair DDR5, 32 Inch 4K by 3
September 6, 20205 yr Try Simbrief for flight planning, it will give you the weather at departure and destination and also winds aloft; which wont really effect you until the wind bug is fixed. Sean Green
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