Windy launches Route Planner

[Spirare]

Got it !
Great, I like this new feature a lot...used it to plan our passage across the Tasman Sea from Hobart - Australia to Nelson New Zealand last May.
Regards,

[bobbymcd]

How can we modify Boat's speed/Sailpolars ?

[marekd]

@Gkikas-LGPZ It is not so easy. It depends on values around, on geopotential height, on the decrease in value with height and more... But here is a picture with imprinted values. Hope it is what you need :-)

[Gkikas LGPZ]

@marekd
Thank you.

I thought it is something like this (where the green shades depict R.H >70%)

In Windy's VFR route planner the grey shades seem to stand for R.H. aprox. >90%

[edson.eustachio]

@marekd I saw you guys have changed the behavior of mapping and planning feature to keep the point position visible while we drag it over the map. Now the new feature is perfect for my experience.

Thanks a lot and congratulations again!!

[nicotom]

It's very interesting and relevant but i would prefer the distances in nautical miles for the boat.

[w.schroeder]

Thank you very much for this excellent program and the features enculded. In the new feature for the routes or waypoints you show the weather along.
A servere problem for pilots (IFR) is - to know the tops where you get out of clouds. So if it would be possible to show the clouds (bottom to top layer) along the route it would be phantastic.

Best Regards
Wolfgang

[Gkikas LGPZ]

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

[Gkikas LGPZ]

@w-schroeder
Cloud tops and bases are already provided in route planner.
Unfortunatelly the forecast models are not so good on these parameters.

Personally, I read these data with caution (fog forecast, too).

Although cloud top forecast is difficult to compute,
cloud tops computations for "now" (real time) is easy, using INFRA+ satellite images and soundings.
https://community.windy.com/topic/8960/suggestion-ability-to-change-units-in-infra

I hope developers will add the ability to read cloud top temperature, using the picker.
https://community.windy.com/topic/8820/windy-launches-satellite-layer/22

[mhaberler]

super useful - I look forward using this in winter for long-distance balloon rides!

a suggestion:

for "Share", would it be possible to include the use case ("Car, hiking", "VFR flight", "Boat") in the link to be shared?

reason: when briefing a bunch of pilots, everybody should see the same view without further clicking around

thanks!

[Zepp]

Thanks for this useful feature. Is it possible to also include the relative time/speed? It's because when I plan a route I always see "covered distance - time - weather"

Say, if I leave at 06:00 and after 4 hour I cover 25nm, all I can see is the distance bar, yet I cannot see the time hence weather forecast at 10:00 on that particular position

I hope I explained myself well

[Ulrich Begemann]

Hello

The routing function looks very promising. But for a sailor it is uninteresting to know how the actual weather is at the destination 300 nm away for example. It would be great, if on the basis of a speed indication of the boat the weather would be determined, which is to be expected with the arrival of the boat at the respective place.

Regrads

Ulrich

[Guile]

@marekd Thanks for the up grade and the great new tool.If possible, could we have a nautical mile option for the boating ?

[mhaberler]

some drumbeating: https://blog.mah.priv.at/index.php/2019/08/14/custom-cross-sections-with-windy/

great job, folks!

[davebergie]

Excellent. Incredibly useful.

[jmh2002]

@mhaberler said in Windy launches Route Planner:

some drumbeating: https://blog.mah.priv.at/index.php/2019/08/14/custom-cross-sections-with-windy/

great job, folks!

It's always nice to see demonstrations of the various different practical uses of Windy, so THANKS! :)

[A Former User]

Looks good. Hard to understand at first.

[A Former User]

The new Distance planning tool appears to be only in Kilometers (?) Any boat or air journey need to be measured in Nautical Miles.
Two years ago I used the Windy distance tools to weather-route a friends yacht from Vancouver to UK via Panama. And all distances were then given as nM. Why the change?
I note that wind speeds are still given as Knots .-
Wikipidea =
A nautical mile is a unit of measurement used in both air and marine navigation,[2] and for the definition of territorial waters.[3] Historically, it was defined as one minute (1/60 of a degree) of latitude along any line of longitude. Today the international nautical mile is defined as exactly 1852 metres. This converts to about 1.15 imperial/US miles. The derived unit of speed is the knot, one nautical mile per hour.

[idefix37]

@mark137

See above this post from @Gkikas-LGPZ

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

[A Former User]

Great Thanks. I thought it a bit strange.