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    • Arg0nautaA Offline
      Arg0nauta @marekd | Premium
      last edited by

      @marekd WONDERFUL! And very convenient when planning a flight - thanks! :-)

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      • marekdM Offline
        marekd Windy Staff
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        @stitch You are right, freezing altitude is wrong. Thank you for your repeated reportings. New fixed version will be available soon.

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        • GGDmackG Offline
          GGDmack | Premium
          last edited by

          I love this new feature.

          Is it possible that we could get a circle radius measurement tool too?

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          • M Offline
            Mesaimeer
            last edited by

            The Route Planner should have the capability to have speeds inserted for various legs/courses. This should inturn show the movement of the Ship/Boat over the legs with the forecast patterns.

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              stitch Meteorologist @marekd | Premium
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              @marekd

              Is it possible at your end (coding wise) to add the height of the terrain to the fcst freezing height which should then give the true freezing height abv sea level?

              Thx

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              • marekdM Offline
                marekd Windy Staff @stitch
                last edited by

                @stitch Sure, there is a picture from my local development IFR branch :-)

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                • Gkikas LGPZG Offline
                  Gkikas LGPZ Moderator Meteorologist @marekd
                  last edited by

                  @marekd
                  For Freezing Altitude, please consider ...
                  https://community.windy.com/topic/7633/please-add-freezing-level-in-elevation-above-sea-level/2
                  and
                  https://community.windy.com/topic/3643/clouds-bases/10

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                  • C Offline
                    contessa32
                    last edited by

                    You could consider the possibility of uploading the polars of a boat so to perform weather routing. To include thresholds on wave height, minimum wind speed for motoring, maximum wind and gust speed and the possibility of evaluating several departure times would be also desirable. Congratulations for the great job done until now.

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                      stitch Meteorologist @marekd | Premium
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                      @marekd ,

                      I'm loving it :)

                      Just had to get my head in the right space wrt ISA+/- . After a quick bit of Googling I can see the benefits of ISA esp with the tropopause highlighted and areas of potential instability/lower level inversions & cold/warm air advection. Neat!

                      Are the bottom 2 rows "cloud base height" & "cloud top height"?

                      I can't wait to get my hands on the Beta product......great work!!!!!!

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                      • A Offline
                        alpha.kilo
                        last edited by alpha.kilo

                        Show also visibility along the route in the table.

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                          alpha.kilo @marekd
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                          @marekd Great tool! My recommendation: Let the user define somewhere in personal settings the boat speed in % of wind speed for e.g. 45°, 90°, and 135° plus maximum speed and have the tool calculating the progress of the boat along the route. Or, even better, build in the polar diagrams for some typical sailing yachts that the user can chose from in a drop down menu. The table should show the weather forecast along the route at the boat's calculated position while the time (and with it the weather forecast) is progressing. Let the user choose, if distance is indicated in kilometers or nautical miles.

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                          • cabinadeC Offline
                            cabinade | Premium
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                            Hello please is there a way to set the speed based on Ground Speed instead of wind speed? that would be useful for road planning! thanks!

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                            • Saverio458S Offline
                              Saverio458 | Premium
                              last edited by

                              Very cool!

                              still missing (but you already know, I see) possibility to change timing definition and vessel speed.

                              Thanks

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                              • cdenmanC Offline
                                cdenman | Premium
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                                When you use windy for boat travel you would want the distance traveled in Nautical miles. The only distance option I see is km which is useless to me. Windy use to offer that option why was it dropped?

                                Carl R Denman

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                                • idefix37I Offline
                                  idefix37 Sailor Moderator @cdenman
                                  last edited by idefix37

                                  @cdenman

                                  https://community.windy.com/topic/9013/windy-launches-route-planner/52

                                  As explained here above by @Gkikas-LGPZ, how you can change km by NM

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                                  • marekdM Offline
                                    marekd Windy Staff
                                    last edited by marekd

                                    🎉 Another update is out! 🎉


                                    Changelog:

                                    • add Aigram and IFR view
                                    • add more wind marks at more altitude levels for VFR view
                                    • add current view to URL for better sharing
                                    • fix the freezing altitude curve
                                    • highlight all clickable units to (hopefully) avoid repeated stupid posts

                                    Thank you all for your feedback, it helped us a lot :-)

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                                    • Cavajr.C Offline
                                      Cavajr. @Francfo
                                      last edited by

                                      @Francfo hi Franco! you have a reason for that!!! but, with a new tecnology progress, you can buy a new Iridium Go and have wifi. Regarsd!!!

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                                      • Gkikas LGPZG Offline
                                        Gkikas LGPZ Moderator Meteorologist @marekd
                                        last edited by

                                        @marekd
                                        Thank you very much for providing the IFR view!
                                        It is very useful for pilots (and aviation meteorologists!).

                                        Please consider to add data for FL340 (250 hPa)
                                        as this is a flight level used by most flights.
                                        Data at 250 hPa are available at Windy as this is a standard level.
                                        IMO you must add data at 250 hPa at "sounding" also
                                        for reasons described here
                                        https://community.windy.com/topic/7963/upper-air-temperatures

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                                        • sandybigS Offline
                                          sandybig @Cavajr. | Premium
                                          last edited by

                                          @Cavajr I could buy a newer bigger boat, get a professional crew and let them worry about it!
                                          You miss the point (really?) - products like Iridium are expensive, saving data on local device is not - simple!

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                                          • idefix37I Offline
                                            idefix37 Sailor Moderator @sandybig
                                            last edited by idefix37

                                            @sandybig
                                            @Cavajr

                                            But in fact, with the Iridium Go or Iridium phone, you cannot get windy.com. These devices are only useful for receiving low bandwidth data

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