January 8, 20224 yr There are many weather apps and sites available to use for flight sim, such as Windy, MeteoBlue, Ventusky. Ryan, the Missionary Bush Pilot, has mentioned using Windy. What app/site do you use and why? I have foreflight with its weather features, but would like to gauge opinions on others you feel enhances your flight planning. CPU Ryzen 7800X 3D RAM 32GB Corsair VENGEANCE DDR5 6000MHz GPU GEFORCE RTX 4090 Monitor AOC AGON AG352UCG UltraWide G-Sync @ 3440x1440 Internal Storage 1TB NVMe PCIe SSD External Storage Three 4Tb HDs
January 8, 20224 yr I recently discovered metar-taf. It just shows the metar/taf/notams for a specific airport but does so quite nicely. It also shows the cloud ceiling which is nice if you are VFR. Usually the weather in MSFS matches with this site. Flightsim rig: CPU: AMD 5900x | Mobo: MSI X570 MEG Unify | RAM: 32GB G.Skill Trident Z Neo | GPU: Gigabyte RTX 3090 | Storage: M.2 (2 & 4 TB) | PSU: Corsair RM850x | Case: Fractal Define 7 XL Display: Acer Predator x34 3440x1440 | Speakers: Logitech Z906 Controllers: Fulcrum One Yoke | MFG Crosswind v2 pedals | Honeycomb Bravo Quadrant |Thrustmaster TCA Quadrant | Stream Deck XL & Plus | TrackIR 5 Tobii eye tracking
January 8, 20224 yr 31 minutes ago, orchestra_nl said: I recently discovered metar-taf. It just shows the metar/taf/notams for a specific airport but does so quite nicely. It also shows the cloud ceiling which is nice if you are VFR. Usually the weather in MSFS matches with this site. This is my go to as well. Surprisingly good coverage globallyl. Edited January 8, 20224 yr by scotchegg i910900k, RTX 3090, 32GB DDR4 RAM, AW3423DW, Ruddy girt big mug of Yorkshire Tea
January 8, 20224 yr Meteoblue, like the Avaiation metar section which displays the status of each airport (vfr ifr etc..), cloud base or visibitlity etc.. on the map and also the animated wind speeds.
January 8, 20224 yr Not sure if these are of any help, but I use them. METAR (maccosim.com) ATIS (maccosim.com)
January 8, 20224 yr Skyvector, both for flight sim and IRL. Also good for flight planning and you can display Sigmets, Airmets, Winds Aloft and NexRad, all on top of aviation enroute maps. After you set up your route, you can export it to LitlleNavMap and from there export it directly into MSFS. It's great value for the price, which is free. John Wiesenfeld KPBI | FAA PPL/SEL/IFR in a galaxy long ago and far away | VATSIM PILOT P2 i7-11700K, 32 GB DDR4 3.6 GHz, MSI RTX 3070ti, Dell 4K monitor
January 8, 20224 yr https://www.aviationweather.gov/metar -J 13700KF | RTX 4090 @ 1440 | 64GB DDR5 | 2 x 1TB SSDs | 1TB M.2 NVMe
February 15, 20233 yr I'm so excited to hear about this new weather app/site! I'm sure it'll be a great resource for all of us. I'm a big fan of the weather and I'm always checking the forecast to see what the temperature and conditions will be. This new app looks like it will be a great way to keep track of the weather. Plus, it looks like it will be easy to use and understand. I'm looking forward to trying it out and seeing what other features it has.
February 15, 20233 yr My favorite https://metar-taf.com Click on the blue panel on the right for full details AMD 7 7700X, 32GB DDR5, RTX 5060ti 16GB, 2 x Samsung 1TB NVMe, 1 x 4TB sata SSD, Windows 11 Prof
February 15, 20233 yr I'm glad to see people discussing the different weather apps and sites available for flight sims.
February 15, 20233 yr On 1/8/2022 at 5:03 PM, orchestra_nl said: I recently discovered metar-taf. It just shows the metar/taf/notams for a specific airport but does so quite nicely. It also shows the cloud ceiling which is nice if you are VFR. Usually the weather in MSFS matches with this site. That is what I use, and it works great.
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