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No, this is the right group, not alt.discussion flatulence.
I have been having fun with flight sim, using real world weather and
downloading winds aloft, trying to fly the King Air east to west across the
Pacific, island hopping, and the problem is this.
I can go to high altitude, say 30,000ft and then find I am facing a head-on
80 mph or more headwind and the aeroplane runs out of fuel before reaching
the next island.
On the other hand I can do the same flight at, say 4000 feet, but much more
slowly, the headwind is much less and the aeroplane gets there.
Is there any way on flight sim to get prior knowledge of the wind speed and
direction at various altitudes, without actually going there and finding
out? It is a bit pointless to fly up to 30,000, use a hell of a lot of fuel
in the process and then finding it was a bad move due to an adverse jet
stream.
This must be a problem for real life pilots also. Catching the right
airstream must be as important to pilots as it was to the old time sailing
ship captains.
On the other hand it could be my inexperience and not getting the engine /
propeller speeds optimised for maximum range. I am only a flight sim "nut"
and I have never piloted a real plane in my life.
Has anyone any advice?
Gareth
No, this is the right group, not alt.discussion flatulence.
I have been having fun with flight sim, using real world weather and
downloading winds aloft, trying to fly the King Air east to west across the
Pacific, island hopping, and the problem is this.
I can go to high altitude, say 30,000ft and then find I am facing a head-on
80 mph or more headwind and the aeroplane runs out of fuel before reaching
the next island.
On the other hand I can do the same flight at, say 4000 feet, but much more
slowly, the headwind is much less and the aeroplane gets there.
Is there any way on flight sim to get prior knowledge of the wind speed and
direction at various altitudes, without actually going there and finding
out? It is a bit pointless to fly up to 30,000, use a hell of a lot of fuel
in the process and then finding it was a bad move due to an adverse jet
stream.
This must be a problem for real life pilots also. Catching the right
airstream must be as important to pilots as it was to the old time sailing
ship captains.
On the other hand it could be my inexperience and not getting the engine /
propeller speeds optimised for maximum range. I am only a flight sim "nut"
and I have never piloted a real plane in my life.
Has anyone any advice?
Gareth
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