Winds Aloft Overlay on AOPA Internet Flight Planner
On Mar 10, 6:02*pm, Hiro wrote:
On Mar 10, 3:19*am, Tman wrote:
Hiro wrote:
On Mar 10, 1:45 am, Hiro wrote:
* *For example, you
have a lot more winds aloft stations than the aviationweather.gov on
the map. *It also looks to me that the winds aloft can be attained in
the increment of less than 3000ft, which is not possible in
aviationweather.gov. *
I also just noticed that the New Flight Path Tool (Java Tool) provided
by aviationweather.gov also provides much more detailed winds aloft
information. *How is this possible while there are less number of
stations available on their FB report?
interpolation?
At first, I was thinking that this could be just the interpolation.
However, I could not find any information that those are interpolated
information. *Where in the official document did you find that
information?
If you look at the data for the reported altitudes, you can check to
see if the winds given at the in-between altitudes are interpolated
values. My guess is they are.
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