Hot Air Balloon Pilots

I wrote up some notes on @rittels recently updated traj plugin:

https://blog.mah.priv.at/index.php/2020/01/07/new-version-of-the-windy-trajectory-plugin/

A video from the second flight:

@vicb right, continuation of dewpoints/temps 'underground' doesnt make any sense

now if you're looking into mobile screen real estate is an issue to start with, so maybe drop the brown box altogether and save some pixels for the skewt diagram - just start at ground level and record ground elevation

my use case: I use the traj plugin for planning balloon rides

so I pick a track which is likely and nice, and then check conditions along this path

'along this path' practically never translates into a favorite location - so in this case just used up screen space for no use

I really like the better-sounding plugin!

I have a few suggestions for improvement:

• make the Favorites display optional with a toggle button like 'Zoom View' - it takes a lot of screen real estate and if you're probing locations you might not necessarily limit yourself to favorite locations
• make the ground brown box translucent so you can see temp and dewpoint at low altitudes - the values vanish in the brown box like so: https://snipboard.io/p3Za7H.jpg (or maybe remove the brown box to start with and mark ground level with a line - the box adds no information per se)
• try the plugin on a a few mobiles (or mobile screen predefs in Chrome Dev Tools) - pretty much unusable. Width and height not adapted to screen size. Works great on a PC though.

thanks for adding this!

best regards,

Michael

see this: https://community.windy.com/topic/9250/list-of-finished-windy-plugins/5

Here's another long jump - from today

435km in under 4hrs, peak 80kts - and phenomenal forecast accuracy!

https://blog.mah.priv.at/gpsvisualizer/20200105044229-47167-map.html

reproduce-by: in 'Search location ...' enter:

• 'Filzmoos' - weather forecast comes up, location picker set
• 'Klatovy' (Airport LKKT) - airport info comes up, location picker NOT set
• 'E8288' - (pws at Hollabrunn) - reports come up, location picker NOT set

Same behaviour when selecting from favorite list.

I guess either all location types should select the picker, or none of them - it makes the use of plugins relying on a location pick surprising.

The blue track is from the GPS, the other tracks are forecasts by the windy traj plugin.

https://blog.mah.priv.at/gpsvisualizer/20191229-OE-SOX.html

Kudos to @rittels !!

no, back to normal. Thanks for checking!

• Michael

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