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Master Windy for Pilots

Level Up Your Aviation Weather Planning by Learning Windy.com’s Powerful Free Tools

This website is an independent educational resource and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Windy.com or its parent company

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go beyond the standard weather brief

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Harness Windy’s Superior Weather Tools with our Course.

Unlock Windy’s Aviation Secrets

Learn Windy’s extensive capabilities to help you with long range weather planning and decision making.

Discover Powerful Aviation Wx Layers

Learn how to visualize weather forecasts in a way far superior to any other. Understand intricacies of aviation weather layers.

Level up your adventures

Learn how to access weather data for remote locations farther ahead of time to make big planning decisions.

Plan that Weekend Trip

Make money saving no-go decisions farther ahead of time with extended range layers.

Learn Time Saving Advanced Tools

Deep dives into understanding tools like the METEOGRAM and AIRGRAM will give you incredible amounts of useful information in one single view

And know what you’re looking at.

It’s not enough to poke around Windy’s layers. You’ve got to know what the data means, what its limitations are, and how it applies to real life scenarios.

We cover the intricacies of each tool and provide use case scenarios so it all really clicks.

Meet your instructor

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Eric aka “SoCal Flying Monkey” is an FAA Certified Advanced Ground Instructor. He’s given talks for FAAST (the FAA Safety Team), Aviation Explorers, and his scenario videos have been featured in The Finer Points Ground School App. He’s led groups of pilots on adventures throughout Baja Mexico and he has a popular aviation Youtube channel that focuses on his family adventures in their Cherokee 6.

“Once I unlocked the secrets of windy.com for aviation, I was able to plan trips and flights more reliably many days out. It really opened up a whole new level of aviation for me- both for long and short term decision making.”

What you’ll learn

6 Part Video Course

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    • What is Windy?

    • Why use Windy?

    • How to get the most out of Windy for aviation.

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    • User Settings

    • Navigating the interface

    • Getting a basic forecast

    • Altitudes

    • Long Range Forecasts

    • Customizing the layers for aviation

    • Trip Strategy Use Case Scenario

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    • IN DEPTH UNDERSTANDING OF EACH LAYER

    • Over 20+ Aviation Layers Dissected and Explained

    • Learn the limitations of each layer

    • Understand when and how to use aviation layers

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    • Understanding the display

    • Interpreting cloud bases

    • Interpreting cloud layers

    • Altitudes and pressures

    • Getting the most out of the meteogram

    • Understanding Meteogram limitations

    • Understanding the Airgram for IFR flight

    • Interpreting freezing levels

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    • Weather model resolutions

    • Weather model strengths and weaknesses

    • Weather model limitations

    • Compare Tool

    • European Model

    • GFS Model

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    • METEOBLUE

    • UKV

    • AROME

    • Access

    • High Resolution Radar Rapid Refresh HRRR

    • NAM

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    • Advanced customization of Windy

    • Airport views and Information

    • METARs

    • TAFs

    • Using Webcams for current conditions

    • Advanced Layer Tools

Windy for Pilots Unlimited Access
$49.00
One time

Five part video course about how to use windy.com's features for aviation weather planning including use case scenarios. One time purchase gives unlimited access to the course.

Become the captain of your weather planning

 FAQs

  • Once mastered, Windy’s unique presentation of weather forecast data allows pilots to visually understand the weather forecast in a way other resources don’t. The ability to see and compare data from several forecast models across dozens of layers useful for aviation makes for a powerful tool. On top of that the ability to customize the interface speeds up forecast study.

  • Even though Eric is a FAA Certified Advanced Ground Instructor, this is not a flight training course and does not count towards any certificate requirements. This is a course explaining windy.com’s powerful weather tools from a pilot’s perspective. It is meant to show pilots how to maximize the capabilities of the website specifically for aviation. Always obtain official weather briefings before flight and consult with YOUR CFI about any meteorologic or flight planning questions.

  • No! Windy is another tool in the arsenal to gather “all available information” about a flight. It’s important to understand that the data windy presents is computer modeled forecast data and not a forecast by a meteorologist. It’s extremely important to always get an official weather briefing before flight. Windy is a great supplement to the standard briefing and is extremely useful for longer range outlooks where strategic trip planning is involved.

  • I love the Meteogram view for its usefulness. But it’s important to truly understand what is represented and thats part of what this course aims to cover.