There are only a few services that offer cross-section weather along a route:

1. Gramet - it's old, doesn't update and offer to build a route from airport to airport
2. Autorouter - an improved version of Gramet. You can check weather along any route and it use more advanced GFS model, but it's still not very reliable.
3. Meteoblue - the same old GFS data, with, allegedly, some adjustments, but I eventually found, over many flights, that it was too unreliable to tell me anything which wasn’t blindingly obvious from the MSLP.

So my question is, can we expect such a feature from Windy, considering that you have so much weather data at your finger tips?

Please, make sure there will be at least an option to input enroute altitude, average moving speed (in still air) and how it's going to be affected by winds aloft to get an appropriate timings. Vertical speed would be a huge plus to see your path in climbing/descent phase of the flight. Hopefully, it's not going to be overly complicated to imply.

@rsdevarapalli said in How can I access historical data?:

Past data would be really nice to have feature

+1

Dear Windy team,

I also would appreciate if you will add an option into the app (as well as into the web version) to visualize your flight planned route (and import it as GPX to save time), so we can have a Poor man's weather radar for pilots :) The app lacks speed control compared to web-version and I also would like to see more frames per time unit (right now it refreshes with a speed of 1 frame/3 minutes). Maybe you can make another time period in addition to 12/6/1 hour, say, for the latest 15 minutes which will be the most frame-dense period (for ex. 1 frame/minute) ? When pilots are already in the air, they're interested only in very latest weather data and 15 minutes may serve this need well.

I usually fly at lower altitudes and can receive mobile broadband connection from time to time (depending on location) and an option to reduce downloadable traffic is highly demanded. Maybe you can make an option to preload specific part of the map (just like in Google maps) and fine-tune overall downloaded traffic to reduce unnecessary stuff. Again, the goal is to receive fresh & updated data as soon as your phone/tablet receives broadband connection , because it may be lost in next minute.

THANKS IN ADVANCE!

SigWX/SigMET is a must

Can you add native support of Skydemon route files? It saves a route in 6 different file formats including GPX, but it uses a slightly different strings compared to the way your plugin creates a GPX. Also, Skydemon's *.flightplan file has the most proprietary data available.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1l6nkQDsZbYSEaBa-XWhSkI1H_f2-tdgA/view?usp=sharing

Thanks!

@marekd :

All winds are relative to the direction of movement, i.e. the green arrow pointing to the right is a tailwind, the red arrow pointing to the left is a headwind. Should we change it? Would you prefer switching between relative and absolute wind direction?

You can make the same stuff used in GRAMET (aka vertical cut of the GFS forecast). This will help users to avoid learning new symbology if they wish to compare both forecasts.

https://www.autorouter.aero/wiki/gramet

Throughout the chart, you will find a grid of wind symbols. These give you a lot of information. The circle in the middle shows the cloud coverage in quarters, in the above example there would be no clouds. The barb attached to the circle is the wind rose with the standard symbol. The above example shows 35 knots and 30 knots of wind coming from north. The magenta array shows the aircraft’s movement relative to the direction of the flight (hence magenta, that used as standard color in avionics to indicate flight track). In this example the aircraft flies on a north easterly course and would experience a headwind coming from the left. The number right to the wind symbol is the temperature, -47°C in our example.

1. Add a full-screen option to have more complete view.
   https://ibb.co/ZLcqDg9

2. Change the color of altitude marks (so they could be visible on dark & white background) and make them still at the same position (right now they shift to the left).
   

3. Route details should be editable with keyboard input & coordinates should be switchable in settings (from DEG°MIN'SEC'' to decimals XX.XXXXXX°).
   https://ibb.co/L0B6HLF

4. Add an option to save routes in your profile and make them constantly visible (right mouse click/long tap on the route to hide or close it). At this moment if you hit 'X' on the vertical cut pane, the route disappears. You don't always want to observe the vertical part, because it 'eats' a big bite of display. That will be especially useful when you fully implement it into the app to help pilots get better weather visualization when they're in the air (see my next suggestion).
   

5. A copy/paste of my old suggestion suggestion:
   The app lacks speed control compared to web-version and I also would like to see more frames per time unit (right now it refreshes with a speed of 1 frame/3 minutes). Maybe you can make another time period in addition to 12/6/1 hour, say, for the latest 15 minutes which will be the most frame-dense period (for ex. 1 frame/minute) ? When pilots are already in the air, they're interested only in very latest weather data and 15 minutes may serve this need well.

I usually fly at lower altitudes and can receive mobile broadband connection from time to time (depending on my location) and an option to reduce downloadable traffic is highly demanded. Maybe you can make an option to preload specific part of the map (just like in Google maps) and fine-tune overall downloadable traffic to reduce unnecessary stuff. Again, the goal is to receive fresh & updated data as soon as your phone/tablet receives broadband connection , because it may be lost in next minute.
https://ibb.co/VHSGwMQ

These are just a very brief quick-notes. I'll try to thoroughly test it later.

Vote 1: HIRLAM

@rittels
It took me a while to figure out myself how things works (I'm not very tech-savvy person) 😅

MSL is a default value for route altitude that's set in aircraft options (aircraft - edit - climb & descent). In the above's example it's repeated for the first and the last leg of a flight. I checked out my aircraft settings, and it's set for 3000 above mean sea level.

LevelChange="B" (Change level before this leg starts)
LevelChange="F" (Start changing level when this leg starts)

See screenshot below.
https://postimg.cc/Z934nVcF

Thanks for taking a time to implement it! 👍

PS: you can you download Skydemon and try to make your own tests? It's free in trial mode for 1 month.

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A *.GPX route from SkyDemon doesn't work. Can you fix it?
Skydemon is free you can grab a PC installer on their website (requires email registration and EU ip-address).

Do you have any updates about adding real-time GPS position? You know, every flyer and every boater would like to have a poor-mans weather radar as backup. So, even if a weather radar data is delayed and generally not very accurate it's still better than nothing.

I still would like to hear some sort of a feedback from you...

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Do you have any updates on this?

I think it would be a great idea if you start offering a premium subscription for everybody who will deploy a live camera exclusively for Windy. This is the kind of data I personally very much rely on, so it would be great if you can improve your website by attracting more people to participate in adding this valuable information.

@rittels
It took me a while to figure out myself how things works (I'm not very tech-savvy person) 😅

MSL is a default value for route altitude that's set in aircraft options (aircraft - edit - climb & descent). In the above's example it's repeated for the first and the last leg of a flight. I checked out my aircraft settings, and it's set for 3000 above mean sea level.

LevelChange="B" (Change level before this leg starts)
LevelChange="F" (Start changing level when this leg starts)

See screenshot below.
https://postimg.cc/Z934nVcF

Thanks for taking a time to implement it! 👍

PS: you can you download Skydemon and try to make your own tests? It's free in trial mode for 1 month.

@rittels year, the 1st leg = 3000ft msl,
2nd = 5000,
3rd = 4000,
4th = 3000.

The plugin loads altitudes, but they values don't match for some reason.

@rittels thanks! Is it possible to include altitudes as well?

@rittels great! Thank you very much! Saving is not a big deal, because I only use loading function to check weather along my route.

Can you re-check it one more time, please? For some reason, Flight Planner doesn't pick up the first (starting) point from *.flightplan route file.

PS: I re-uploaded my RAR-file, because url was broken.

Do you have any plans to add additional weather models for route planner, besides ECMWF? I'm particularly interested in ICON-EU & NEMS with bigger resolution for Europe 🙂