Using Windy for Flight Planning

bcrosby

Hi Everyone,

I put together a one hour presentation on how to use Windy for VFR (and some IFR) Flight Planning. Topics include:

What are weather models and their limitations.
Which one should you use for flight planning?
Useful data layers to help with flight planning (cloud bases, fronts, winds aloft, icing, visibility).
Predicting turbulence due to daytime heating (for those local/sightseeing flights).
Climate change and how to predict flight conditions in smoke due to forest fires.
How to use Windy’s route/trip planner to get a profile view of the weather you might encounter.
How to use both real time data (satellite and weather radar) and forecast data.
Using windy as a supplement to already available weather data from NavCanada/Environment Canada & NOAA/FAA.

Copies of the slides and the presentation can be found here: