FSS

[Piper_Pilot]

I think X-Plane already has this feature, but it would be nice to have Flight Service Station. You could make your flight plan, submit it into the simulator, and then the simulator will tell you what the weather is expecting to be on your flight. That could be transferred to the clipboard/checklist, thing that you have in the cockpit of your airplane!

[rlipoff]

Yeah, it's impossible to do any kind of weather planning inside FS. I can't find any free sources for weather aloft oustide the US online (anybody know any?), so inflight weather is guesswork at best for me. Maybe I need yet another addon...

[Piper_Pilot]

Eh, if X-Plane can do it, so can FSX.

[jcmissionary]

FSS weather briefings are becoming a thing of the past. Most pilots I know (myself included) self-brief on DUATS and also submit their flight plans that way. While I wouldn't recommend this for student pilots, for those with some experience, it saves a lot of hassle. One would also need to be resonably confident in their ability to decode and interpret the weather they're given.

Not to say that FSS's are totally obsolete, though. I still use them for enroute weather updates, as well as opening flight plans.

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[Piper_Pilot]

>FSS weather briefings are becoming a thing of the past. Most
>pilots I know (myself included) self-brief on DUATS and also
>submit their flight plans that way. While I wouldn't recommend
>this for student pilots, for those with some experience, it
>saves a lot of hassle. One would also need to be resonably
>confident in their ability to decode and interpret the weather
>they're given.
>
>Not to say that FSS's are totally obsolete, though. I still
>use them for enroute weather updates, as well as opening
>flight plans.

Hmmm intresting, I think FSS can be used to open flight plans, and to give enroute forecast. It'll probably be too much programming to do but I dunno, I just think it would be a nice feature.

[desertflyer]

What about ActiveSky?