Weather forecast

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Weather forecast

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screen	s screen posted 5/7/2020 5:08:39 AM HOT Topic Details Share Topic
s Group: Forum Members Posts: 20, Visits: 72	Good Morning,I have now discussed the weather forecast in SD with several flight colleagues.We came to the conclusion that flight planning with the SD weather tool is very difficult. At the moment it is only possible to plan 5-6 hours in advance with us in Austria. With the former Jeppeesen program (moible fligth deck) it was possible to check the weather (visibility, base of the clouds, wind, etc.) for about 3 days in advance. (Sorry Tim that I mention MFD again) The whole thing was possible with a slide controller. See attachementwhat do you think of this possibility? Greetings Alex Edited 5/7/2020 5:29:00 AM by screen
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Tim Dawson	Tim Dawson posted 5/11/2020 9:00:54 AM Post Details Share Post
Group: Forum Members Posts: 8.1K, Visits: 9.2K	It isn't clear what sort of weather data you're actually talking about. The only thing I can see on the top two pictures that isn't in the bottom two is rainfall radar/forecast, which is only really accurate out to a few hours ahead so we don't include anything further than that. TAF and METAR of course only go as far as they are issued.
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pilot-byom	p pilot-byom posted 5/11/2020 9:57:26 AM Post Details Share Post
p Group: Forum Members Posts: 323, Visits: 388	+x Tim Dawson - 5/11/2020 9:00:54 AM It isn't clear what sort of weather data you're actually talking about. The only thing I can see on the top two pictures that isn't in the bottom two is rainfall radar/forecast, which is only really accurate out to a few hours ahead so we don't include anything further than that. TAF and METAR of course only go as far as they are issued. Just a short remark. The German DWD does publish graphical and grid data including rain forecast radar as trend for up to 7 days in the future. Nevertheless by no obvious or reasonable reason this is not included in their AviationWeather.app, where only the last 24h are shown. The sister app 'WarnWetter" does show the radar forecast for a week in advance. Maybe worth a talk to them whether Skydemon can incorporate that data?
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screen	s screen posted 5/11/2020 10:45:21 AM Post Details Share Post
s Group: Forum Members Posts: 20, Visits: 72	+x MarkusM - 5/11/2020 9:57:26 AM +x Tim Dawson - 5/11/2020 9:00:54 AM It isn't clear what sort of weather data you're actually talking about. The only thing I can see on the top two pictures that isn't in the bottom two is rainfall radar/forecast, which is only really accurate out to a few hours ahead so we don't include anything further than that. TAF and METAR of course only go as far as they are issued. Just a short remark. The German DWD does publish graphical and grid data including rain forecast radar as trend for up to 7 days in the future. Nevertheless by no obvious or reasonable reason this is not included in their AviationWeather.app, where only the last 24h are shown. The sister app 'WarnWetter" does show the radar forecast for a week in advance. Maybe worth a talk to them whether Skydemon can incorporate that data? Alternatively, there is also "RunwayMap" because there is the whole weather for 7 days in advance. Price about 14 euros a year
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pilot-byom	p pilot-byom posted 5/11/2020 11:41:45 AM Post Details Share Post
p Group: Forum Members Posts: 323, Visits: 388	+x screen - 5/11/2020 10:45:21 AM +x MarkusM - 5/11/2020 9:57:26 AM +x Tim Dawson - 5/11/2020 9:00:54 AM It isn't clear what sort of weather data you're actually talking about. The only thing I can see on the top two pictures that isn't in the bottom two is rainfall radar/forecast, which is only really accurate out to a few hours ahead so we don't include anything further than that. TAF and METAR of course only go as far as they are issued. Just a short remark. The German DWD does publish graphical and grid data including rain forecast radar as trend for up to 7 days in the future. Nevertheless by no obvious or reasonable reason this is not included in their AviationWeather.app, where only the last 24h are shown. The sister app 'WarnWetter" does show the radar forecast for a week in advance. Maybe worth a talk to them whether Skydemon can incorporate that data? Alternatively, there is also "RunwayMap" because there is the whole weather for 7 days in advance. Price about 14 euros a year You don't need a paid 'App' for the data, all results of underlying weather models are free on the net and i.e. GFS data goes as far as 384h or 16 days into the future - with limited confidence though. Edited 5/11/2020 11:44:17 AM by MarkusM
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screen	s screen posted 5/11/2020 10:33:27 AM Post Details Share Post
s Group: Forum Members Posts: 20, Visits: 72	+x Tim Dawson - 5/11/2020 9:00:54 AM It isn't clear what sort of weather data you're actually talking about. The only thing I can see on the top two pictures that isn't in the bottom two is rainfall radar/forecast, which is only really accurate out to a few hours ahead so we don't include anything further than that. TAF and METAR of course only go as far as they are issued. In the first two pictures you can see the weather for a current (now) departure. 11 May 05:19 UTC In the next two pictures (pic 3+4), the weather for the planned flight on May 12, 16:00 UTC is visible. In the second picture I can no longer see weather data (wind, gafor, taf, etc. ...)
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