TopMeteo Soaring Weather Now Available for United States Region

During the 2016 SSA convention, TOPMETEO.COM announced availability of their suite of soaring, ballooning and general aviation forecasts for the United States Region.

Dr Bernd Goretzski briefed me on the soaring version of this product. It looks to be nearly identical to all the TopMeteo soaring forecasts for the European and African regions. Naviter is partnering with the release of SeeYou version 8. In that version the winds, soaring forecast and PFD(Potential Flight Index) are combined with the tasking features to suggest the distance and best time to fly in any region of the U.S.

This is a significant new option for getting your soaring forecasts in the U.S. TopMeteo is the premiere soaring forecast service for the last 15+ years throughout Europe. Dr Goretzski explained that their "Regional Numerical Model" is initialized by the NOAA GFS model at boundaries allowing forecasts for soaring, ballooning and GA out to six days. To keep their "Regional Model" synchronized, it is initialized by the GFS model every 24 hours out to six days.

I haven't had a chance after returning from the SSA convention to experiment with this product yet. There is a subscription free period through April 30, 2016 where anyone can register to try it out. The voucher code is:

C-SSAUSA-2016-2016

After the "free" period is over the subscription fee is $99/year. There is a bundled price if you subscribe with through SeeYou's annual fee

Naviter's announcement is he

http://www.naviter.com/2016/02/seeyo...meteo-weather/

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Walter Rogers "WX"