+xThis was solved years ago. You simply enter 0/0 to override the wind settings to nil for any/all legs. If you're having problems achieving this, give us a call and we will talk you through it.
Hi Tim,
the integration of the GFS wind forecast model date dependent on up to +24h time, location and altitude is really a very powerful feature of SkyDemon. I love it and do not want to miss it for flight preparation on the day of flight and the day before! It is really great!!!
However, when planning a route weeks and month ahead (as I am doing a lot to prepare longer flights to foreign countries) and today's wind conditions are 30 knots tail or head wind, the whole ETEs and calculated fuel consumption in the Pilot Log can get quite unrealistic compared the actual might opposite conditions during the flight.
Thus, I was very happy to find a hint in the manual that the automatic wind forecast data can be overridden manually :-)
However I had the same problem as Russ_H: I couldn't find the menu/function to override the wind of all legs manually in the Windows 10 version of SkyDmeon Plan. The SD manual is easy to understand for the Andoid App. No Problem with that.
But finding it in the PC version was really tedious for me. The problem for me was to recognize the "Weather Tools" button in the weather window as button. When I did look at the weather window, as suggested by the manual, I thought "Weather Tools" is just a tab w/o any function behind it.
This was due to the fact that the button text has no boundary around it, which optically characterizes it as an button, one can press on. The background colour and the button colour are identical. Only if you move over the button by chance, it will switch is color. But as it is located so far up in the right corner I actually did never hit it arbitrarily.
The second reason was, I did not interpret the button names "Weather Tools" as "Here you can find some nice powerful tools to manipulate the weather" Instead I was thinking "Why did they add a second headline "Weather Tools" if the window has already a headline "Weather".
I was really desperate as couldn't find it. I was just on my way to request this feature, when I found this discussion in the SD forum.
There are two things, which really would have helped me to find it much more easily:
If the word "Weather Tools" would have appeared and explained with a single sentence in the manual and
if a simple small picture would exist, saying "Just click on this button "Weather Tools"!"
I would really appreciate to find these small pieces of additional information in a future version of the SD manual and I think many more beginners with SD would be grateful too.
Best Regards,
Oliver