Whatever it is, it needs to work on a phone, because Autorouter itself works ok on a phone and I don’t carry a laptop or a tablet on short trips. I just carry a backup phone 
But more to the point a laptop might not be handy when you have to replan a route due to wx – because it may be in the back of the plane while you are somewhere else.
The weather radar overlay in Skyvector seems indeed not to work in Europe currently.
I agree that this information would be a useful addition to Autorouter on the planning chart.
Peter wrote:
OK, but these are apps which cost money and which I do not currently need for anything.
Well they seem to solve the problem you are asking about……
OK, but these are apps which cost money and which I do not currently need for anything.
I tried skyvector on a PC and it doesn’t appear to work:
You can do that in GP or Foreflight or Skydemon as suggested. In some of them manipulating the flightplan directly which can be filed and others having to go back to autorouter.
What I have found would be most useful for this purpose would be something like the skyvector airway+navaid+airport map with selectable wx radar, sferics and IR overlays.
Then one could modify the route developed in the Autorouter to avoid the bad wx areas, by selecting some fly-by waypoints and re-routing through them.
Of course the best way to do this would be a user interface inside the Autorouter website itself, with rubber-banding of the route That website already has a map very much like skyvector. But one could solve most of these issues by inserting just 1 or 2 fly-by waypoints.
tschnell wrote:
The Golze App can be used free of charge via a non-Iridium (Wifi, LTE) internet connection. You can enter a flightplan and download the weather for your route (infrared, radar, sferics, winds, temperatures…) that will then be displayed on a map. This is not a full-blown flight planning app, however.
You would still need a DWD subscription.
The Golze App can be used free of charge via a non-Iridium (Wifi, LTE) internet connection. You can enter a flightplan and download the weather for your route (infrared, radar, sferics, winds, temperatures…) that will then be displayed on a map. This is not a full-blown flight planning app, however.
How?
The Golze app would do this for you.
