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carltn16
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We have a little collection of taildraggers, some of which are very sensitive to crosswinds! 8-) Often when we are looking for somewhere to fly to our primary consideration is whether the destination runway is pointing roughly into wind and if it does have an element of crosswind if it is from the right or left. It would be really great if Skydemon could highlight airfields in some way as to their direction relative to actual or forecast winds for the day and making the most suitable ones easy to see on the map.
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carltn16 - 7/18/2016 9:38:17 PM
We have a little collection of taildraggers, some of which are very sensitive to crosswinds! 8-) Often when we are looking for somewhere to fly to our primary consideration is whether the destination runway is pointing roughly into wind and if it does have an element of crosswind if it is from the right or left. It would be really great if Skydemon could highlight airfields in some way as to their direction relative to actual or forecast winds for the day and making the most suitable ones easy to see on the map.

Bumping this one again as I still think this would be useful and it fits nicely into the "Find Destination" feature. IMHO! 8-)

Tim Dawson
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You're right that it would fit nicely into the Find a Destination tool, but I'm not convinced the problem is widespread enough for us to add to that feature. Given that the runway icons do show orientation, and that the wind barbs can be animated as SemperFi suggests, could this not help?
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