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NEW: Wind Profiles

I’m very happy to announce that I’ve made a long lasting wish come true, to bring to you…

Wind Profiles

How to get them?

Easy: go to Meteo·Mobile Wind Profiles and input the ICAO code of the airport you want to explore. Or, hit on the Wind Profile Icon wind profile icon that you’ll find on all airports Extra Information section (if they have METAR reports, of course)

Check it out: Let’s take a look at KORD (Chicago) wind profile:

Chicago Airport Wind Profile

This radar chart shows the predominant winds at

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Easily find distance between airports

By Xavi J’s request, I’ve just implemented a new improvement on the Flight Distance Calculations (under Pilot Tools)

Xavi requested to get contextual help in finding the airport he wanted to calculate the distance to.

What this means is that you can now start typing the name of the airport, and you’ll immediately get a list of airports whose names match what you’re typing.
Let’s se an example:

Say you want to calculate the distance from Miami INTL (KMIA) to Fort Lauderdale Executive but you don’t remember its ICAO identifier.
You then go to Pilot Tools, then Distance, Time & Course.

You now write KMIA in the From field. You’ll see we’ve added a new filed: Search for. Start typing “Fort Lauderdale” and you’ll see how you get a number of suggestions. Like this: Continue reading “Easily find distance between airports” »