Which Soaring weather service subscription is best?

[Nick Kennedy]

I think I'm going to subscribe to a Soaring weather forecast service.
Which ones are great and easy to use without alot of prior knowledge?
Skysight?

[JS]

Post by Nick Kennedy
I think I'm going to subscribe to a Soaring weather forecast service.
Which ones are great and easy to use without alot of prior knowledge?
Skysight?

I prefer SkySight to XC Skies of Top Meteo.
Top Meteo isn't as easily readable as the others. A sea of numbers with rivers as the background map?
SkySight is owned by a true enthusiast. Responsive to user suggestions.
The other... In my experience has VERY poor response to customers.
Jim

[m***@skysight.io]

Post by Nick Kennedy
I think I'm going to subscribe to a Soaring weather forecast service.
Which ones are great and easy to use without alot of prior knowledge?
Skysight?

We (SkySight) have a free trial, so I encourage you to give it a try and see what you think.
If you get stuck there's a tutorial video at

Regards,
Matthew

[JS]

Post by m***@skysight.io

Post by Nick Kennedy
I think I'm going to subscribe to a Soaring weather forecast service.
Which ones are great and easy to use without alot of prior knowledge?
Skysight?

We (SkySight) have a free trial, so I encourage you to give it a try and see what you think.
If you get stuck there's a tutorial video at http://youtu.be/8RIN0086LzY
Regards,
Matthew

Matthew:
Thanks for an example of response time.
Jim

[Branko Stojkovic]

Post by m***@skysight.io
We (SkySight) have a free trial, so I encourage you to give it a try and see what you think.
If you get stuck there's a tutorial video at http://youtu.be/8RIN0086LzY
Regards,
Matthew

Hi Matthew,
Do you have any plans for adding Western Canada (BC and Alberta) to the regions your forecasts cover?
Thanks,
Branko XYU

[m***@skysight.io]

Post by Branko Stojkovic

Post by m***@skysight.io
We (SkySight) have a free trial, so I encourage you to give it a try and see what you think.
If you get stuck there's a tutorial video at http://youtu.be/8RIN0086LzY
Regards,
Matthew

Hi Matthew,
Do you have any plans for adding Western Canada (BC and Alberta) to the regions your forecasts cover?
Thanks,
Branko XYU

We cover most of Alberta already, if there is a high enough density of pilots in BC to support forecasting operations there, we will extend to it.

[Branko Stojkovic]

There are around 40 pilots in BC, out of which around 10 may be interested in subscribing (my guess).

[MNLou]

Regarding which is better -

Why not both? That's what I'm doing. I like them both and the additional cost is about 2 tows a year.

I haven't found any trend where one is consistently better than the other and I do like the different options between the two.

I find they can be somewhat different 3 days out but tend to converge closer in to the day of flight.

Kudos to Matthew for being very responsive 100% of the time!

Lou

[Nick Kennedy]

OK
I'm gonna give that Skysight a go!

[andrzop]

Post by Nick Kennedy
I think I'm going to subscribe to a Soaring weather forecast service.
Which ones are great and easy to use without alot of prior knowledge?
Skysight?

The best is FCST24, especially for mountains and wave flying.
Second SkySight if you don't have FCST24 or Top Meteo if you have it.

it's good to use 2 different models sources to compare certainty of the forecast. SkySight and FCST24 I think they have the same weather data source.

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Post by andrzop

Post by Nick Kennedy
I think I'm going to subscribe to a Soaring weather forecast service.
Which ones are great and easy to use without alot of prior knowledge?
Skysight?

The best is FCST24, especially for mountains and wave flying.
Second SkySight if you don't have FCST24 or Top Meteo if you have it.
it's good to use 2 different models sources to compare certainty of the forecast. SkySight and FCST24 I think they have the same weather data source.

So gave FCST24 a try, paid for a month. Unless I'm doing something wrong, the forecast is very poor, at least for my area. Thermal height is way off, by 4,000 feet. I'm willing block adjust based on history as I get used to the service to an extent, but 4k is a deal breaker for me. Anyone else have any history using this in the western US?

[ProfJ]

Post by Nick Kennedy
I think I'm going to subscribe to a Soaring weather forecast service.
Which ones are great and easy to use without alot of prior knowledge?
Skysight?

FWIW I find Skysight much more accurate than FCST24 for SW Colorado.

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Post by Nick Kennedy
I think I'm going to subscribe to a Soaring weather forecast service.
Which ones are great and easy to use without alot of prior knowledge?
Skysight?

I use both XC Skies and SkySight. Both are very easy to use. XC Skies allows you to select from various weather models.