Question about winds

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Question about winds

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Newpilot110	N Newpilot110 posted 10/28/2020 8:26:17 AM Topic Details Share Topic
N Group: Forum Members Posts: 3, Visits: 4	Hello dear pilots! I am a pilot which just finished my PPL and i am continuing my journey to build PIC hours and later CPL. Now i have a lot of cross-country flights to be done and i wanted a program that could make my flight planning easier and faster, and SkyDemon seemed as the best option. However there are some things i don't know how to find out. I make most flight plans 1 daye before my flight. When i finished my flightplan, how can i make SkyDemon calculate winds/wind correction for the next day? As it seems now, it calculates for the winds in real time, but i want it to calculate winds for the future, for example the next day? How do i do that? Thanks in advance. Best Regards Newpilot
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grahamb	grahamb posted 10/28/2020 9:22:37 AM Post Details Share Post
Group: Forum Members Posts: 565, Visits: 27K	+x Newpilot110 - 10/28/2020 8:26:17 AM Hello dear pilots! I am a pilot which just finished my PPL and i am continuing my journey to build PIC hours and later CPL. Now i have a lot of cross-country flights to be done and i wanted a program that could make my flight planning easier and faster, and SkyDemon seemed as the best option. However there are some things i don't know how to find out. I make most flight plans 1 daye before my flight. When i finished my flightplan, how can i make SkyDemon calculate winds/wind correction for the next day? As it seems now, it calculates for the winds in real time, but i want it to calculate winds for the future, for example the next day? How do i do that? Thanks in advance. Best Regards Newpilot SD will use the forecast winds for the date/time you set in the Flight Details up to about 24 hours ahead. Alternatively you can set the wind conditions yourself (using a forecast from somewhere else) for a flight either overall or for individual legs using the ‘Set wind conditions for flight’ option on the Weather menu.
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Newpilot110	N Newpilot110 posted 10/29/2020 4:44:58 PM Post Details Share Post
N Group: Forum Members Posts: 3, Visits: 4	+x grahamb - 10/28/2020 9:22:37 AM +x Newpilot110 - 10/28/2020 8:26:17 AM Hello dear pilots! I am a pilot which just finished my PPL and i am continuing my journey to build PIC hours and later CPL. Now i have a lot of cross-country flights to be done and i wanted a program that could make my flight planning easier and faster, and SkyDemon seemed as the best option. However there are some things i don't know how to find out. I make most flight plans 1 daye before my flight. When i finished my flightplan, how can i make SkyDemon calculate winds/wind correction for the next day? As it seems now, it calculates for the winds in real time, but i want it to calculate winds for the future, for example the next day? How do i do that? Thanks in advance. Best Regards Newpilot SD will use the forecast winds for the date/time you set in the Flight Details up to about 24 hours ahead. Alternatively you can set the wind conditions yourself (using a forecast from somewhere else) for a flight either overall or for individual legs using the ‘Set wind conditions for flight’ option on the Weather menu. Thank you for the quick reply grahamb, i found it out, i cannot understand how i did not saw such a clear thing before, but it is so simple, thanks for the help. THere is one thing more i forgot. All my legs contain different TAS speeds, how can i make SkyDemon caculate times for one TAS speed? Because my aicraft has a cruise performance table with permanent TAS speeds corrected for RPM, pressure etc. And my TAS should be 98 knots on the entire route, how can i make it that? Thanks in advance.
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Gerhard66	G Gerhard66 posted 10/29/2020 6:32:17 PM Post Details Share Post
G Group: Forum Members Posts: 168, Visits: 355	+x Newpilot110 - 10/29/2020 4:44:58 PM +x grahamb - 10/28/2020 9:22:37 AM +x Newpilot110 - 10/28/2020 8:26:17 AM Hello dear pilots! I am a pilot which just finished my PPL and i am continuing my journey to build PIC hours and later CPL. Now i have a lot of cross-country flights to be done and i wanted a program that could make my flight planning easier and faster, and SkyDemon seemed as the best option. However there are some things i don't know how to find out. I make most flight plans 1 daye before my flight. When i finished my flightplan, how can i make SkyDemon calculate winds/wind correction for the next day? As it seems now, it calculates for the winds in real time, but i want it to calculate winds for the future, for example the next day? How do i do that? Thanks in advance. Best Regards Newpilot SD will use the forecast winds for the date/time you set in the Flight Details up to about 24 hours ahead. Alternatively you can set the wind conditions yourself (using a forecast from somewhere else) for a flight either overall or for individual legs using the ‘Set wind conditions for flight’ option on the Weather menu. Thank you for the quick reply grahamb, i found it out, i cannot understand how i did not saw such a clear thing before, but it is so simple, thanks for the help. THere is one thing more i forgot. All my legs contain different TAS speeds, how can i make SkyDemon caculate times for one TAS speed? Because my aicraft has a cruise performance table with permanent TAS speeds corrected for RPM, pressure etc. And my TAS should be 98 knots on the entire route, how can i make it that? Thanks in advance. You can find detailed speed settings in the aircraft menu. Just step through the various items. SD is a quite powerful software with many features, that are sometimes not obvious. I hate reading manuals, but I can really recommend to read the SD manual completely!
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grahamb	grahamb posted 10/29/2020 7:16:23 PM Post Details Share Post
Group: Forum Members Posts: 565, Visits: 27K	+x Newpilot110 - 10/29/2020 4:44:58 PM +x grahamb - 10/28/2020 9:22:37 AM +x Newpilot110 - 10/28/2020 8:26:17 AM Hello dear pilots! I am a pilot which just finished my PPL and i am continuing my journey to build PIC hours and later CPL. Now i have a lot of cross-country flights to be done and i wanted a program that could make my flight planning easier and faster, and SkyDemon seemed as the best option. However there are some things i don't know how to find out. I make most flight plans 1 daye before my flight. When i finished my flightplan, how can i make SkyDemon calculate winds/wind correction for the next day? As it seems now, it calculates for the winds in real time, but i want it to calculate winds for the future, for example the next day? How do i do that? Thanks in advance. Best Regards Newpilot SD will use the forecast winds for the date/time you set in the Flight Details up to about 24 hours ahead. Alternatively you can set the wind conditions yourself (using a forecast from somewhere else) for a flight either overall or for individual legs using the ‘Set wind conditions for flight’ option on the Weather menu. Thank you for the quick reply grahamb, i found it out, i cannot understand how i did not saw such a clear thing before, but it is so simple, thanks for the help. THere is one thing more i forgot. All my legs contain different TAS speeds, how can i make SkyDemon caculate times for one TAS speed? Because my aicraft has a cruise performance table with permanent TAS speeds corrected for RPM, pressure etc. And my TAS should be 98 knots on the entire route, how can i make it that? Thanks in advance. You can define your aircraft performance either as TAS or IAS.
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Newpilot110	N Newpilot110 posted 11/2/2020 9:18:28 AM Post Details Share Post
N Group: Forum Members Posts: 3, Visits: 4	Thanks for all the answers, this program rocks, and works like a charm. I fixed TAS and it calculates for the wind i want the next day, i just use forecasted winds from Windy and works so fine. Thanks for the help guys!
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