https://community.windy.com/tags/distance and pRSS for NodeTue, 11 Aug 2026 02:56:03 GMTInvalid Date60https://community.windy.com/topic/12881/distances-and-planninghttps://community.windy.com/topic/12881/distances-and-planningInvalid Date"Distance and Planning" (D&P) is less useful than it could be. I use it to plan sailing races. It is better than nothing but has serious shortcommings which create a lot of work better done in software:

1. There isn't access to wind direction and velocity along the track when in D&P mode,
2. Opening a second instance to get wind vectors only works with two displays i.e. can't do with tablet.
3. Integrating the information is made more difficult by the LAT & LON formats being different. The D&P uses fractional degrees and the wind mode uses degrees and fractional minutes. It is further complicated by many external tables using degrees, minutes and seconds.
   Suggestions;
4. Allow user to choose angular formats.
5. Allow wind information flags to be displayed in D&P" mode.
6. Allow frozen wind information flags to include time in D&P mode.

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