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:

https://fly.blakecrosby.com/2023/10/using-windy-for-flight-planning.html

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:

https://fly.blakecrosby.com/2023/10/using-windy-for-flight-planning.html

Can this new product be used to predict turbulent areas for VFR Flying?

In other words: I need to climb "higher" than the thermal tops to have a smooth ride. OR Avoid the area all together if I need to stay at a specific altitude to keep the ride smooth.

I'm assuming that this data is based on daytime heating and convective rising of air?