Posts made by chihuahuo

I found a strange workaround. It's not ideal, but if you select a couple of points and use the Route Planner, you can click on the VFR button and then it does exactly what I wanted. It shows the airgram only up to 3000m, plus terrain!!!
Like I said, not ideal, especially for people who are used to checking the airgram at it's usual location, but it's there. Gotta love Windy!

@idefix37 And yes, I read my post again and you're absolutely right. 6000 km is a bit excessive! :D

Thanks for your reply @idefix37!
I definitely mean that I am interested in the airmass below 6000m. I am talking soaring flight, without engines, and in the case of paragliders on aircraft that is little more than a plastic shopping bag with lots of strings. No O2 because we aren't allowed in Class A airspace, and I could go on and on but I'll leave it there.
So for us the most important section of the sky is from the surface up to 3000m, and for some very good pilots or on some special days maybe up to 6000m.
The coloured layers on the airgram help us judge instability of the airmass for the day and thus the potential for thermals and their strength, which could be understood as our engine, and thus as important to check before flight as a fuel gauge would be for a regular pilot.
I hope this helps understand what I mean a bit better. :)

Thank you @Korina. Regarding context, is there a way to get links that show the strings in context?

Hi there!

I've started helping a little with the Spanish translation, but I'm not sure of the tone to use. Should I keep it formal or informal? Usted o tú, in Spanish?

Hi there!
As a paraglider pilot, I'm usually not interested in the air above 6000 km or so when I'm looking at an airgram to plan a flight. I think it might be interesting to be able to cap the max. altitude shown so that the lower levels would occupy the entire space and show more detail. The data is already there, it would be a matter of re-rendering the image.
I'm not sure what other soaring pilots may think of this.
Thanks for everything, it's an awesome program!