GAFOR Layer
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Hi Windy Team,
I am using Windy regularly as a Premium User. Most of the time I need it to check if I can do a certain flight-route by using a small Airplane lke Cessna etc.For Aviation there are many sources available like DWD-GAFOR (General Aviatio Forecast). GAFOR is important and widely used in general Aviation and you have to learn it for your Flight license test. This service allows a kind of Fly/not Fly decision for certain areas for the next 6 hours and is continously updated. The GAFOR color pattern looks like that:
Source: https://www.dwd.de/DE/fachnutzer/luftfahrt/teaser/luftsportberichte/fbeu40_edzf_node.html
Based on visibility on the ground (x-Axis) and cloud base (y-Axis) there is a color pattern which indicates the flight conditions. This is the summarized in a map for Germany which looks like that:
As Windy has all these informations available in different layers I would like to ask, if such a layer could be added in the Windy - "Clouds, aviation" layers-section.
This would make it easy for pilots to get a first glance about the conditions as everybody knows the GAFOR Color Scheme.
Thanks for your excellent work on Windy! Keep it up as you help a lot.
Andreas Wüst
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@andreas_windy-0 Hello, right now there is no plan to offer this layer. I am sorry about that.
