Using Windy for Flight Planning – October 26 2023

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Using Windy for Flight Planning - October 26 2023
Using Windy for Flight Planning – October 26 2023
Welcome to the Windy webinar for flight planning!

The webinar will be approx. 1 hour in length Topics we will cover 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.

For more information and a copy of the slides please visit: https://fly.blakecrosby.com/2023/10/using-windy-for-flight-planning.html

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