Enroute Weather - Flight Planning

[CaptMatto 238]

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

[signmanbob 592]

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.

[CaptMatto 238]

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?

 

 

[CaptMatto 238]

I've just discovered LittleNavMap has a metar available when clicking on each airport. 🙂

[Jetman67 517]

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

[sgreen91 182]

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.

[xender 459]

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