As a pilot, I use ForeFlight and this is my procedure to do everything on my iPhone:
FOREFLIGHT FPL-KML-GPX
ForeFlight
WINDY
Hi Windy team,
First of all: thank you for providing such a powerful tool — as a premium user and professional pilot, I use Windy extensively for VFR and IFR preflight planning.
Here’s a short summary of my current workflow and a few critical limitations I encounter that would be very helpful to address:
My workflow:
1. I open “Rain, Thunder” via the “Add layer” panel.
2. Then I select one of my saved flight routes from My Favorites (type: VFR).
3. I set my desired departure time using the timeline bar just above the meteogram.
4. I set cruise speed (e.g. 300 kt) and visualize the vertical profile (meteogram) below the map.
5. I slide through the meteogram to analyze weather along the route. A white dot appears on the route, indicating the aircraft’s position in space.
Limitations:
• When I switch to a different weather layer (e.g. from Rain, Thunder to Cloud base), I must first close the route view (via the red ❌), which removes my route and vertical profile from the screen.
• When I drag the vertical profile to explore the route timeline, the map layer does not synchronize in time. The white dot moves, but the underlying weather map stays fixed.
• There is no visible time indication linked to the white dot position — so I don’t know the forecast time I’m inspecting unless I estimate it manually from the flight duration.
Feature requests:
1. Allow switching between layers without losing the route and vertical profile.
2. Synchronize the map’s weather data with the timeline/slider used in the vertical profile.
3. Display the exact time at the current aircraft position (white dot) on the route.
These enhancements would greatly improve the utility of Windy for all pilots using the route planning feature — both for real-world flying and flight simulation.
Thanks again for your incredible platform. Happy to elaborate further if needed!
Best regards,
Frank
As a pilot, I use ForeFlight and this is my procedure to do everything on my iPhone:
FOREFLIGHT FPL-KML-GPX
ForeFlight
WINDY
While viewing weather on my imported GPX route, I would like to be able to change layers while keeping the route on the map.
Today, we have first to exit our GPX route to be able to change the layer and than again import the GPX route.
And the again and again.
It would be much more convenient to be able to change the layer and to be able to change the altitude level of the layer, while keeping the route on the map.
I’m using an iPhone iOS 18.3.2
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