Where do you get weather info?

[cookmg]

I've been using Duats for preliminary information and then following up with a std. briefing from the FSS. I'm finding that the briefing I get from Flight service is far more complete than duats and more specific to my route of flight. In fact, sometimes flight service is telling me things that are in contradiction with what I'm seeing on duats. Anyone else experience this? It's particularly hard to get a good forecast on duats.

Where do you guys get your weather info on the net? Are there any sites that can give you the complete picture like flight service? Do any of you get all of your weather info online? (Don't even call flight service?

Thanks for the help.

Mike

 

[E120ASA]

The best weather out there is weathertap.com. Radar no more than 2min old. But it cost about $65.00 a year. A lot of aviation weather too.

 

[maverick_fp00]

I use weathertap.com also.. it's definately worth the money - fairly cheap if you ask me.

 

[Aviator]

I agree that Weathertap is an excellent site. The best free site that I've been able to find is http://adds.aviationweather.noaa.gov/

If you are an AOPA member, the Metorlogix weather on their site is quite good. I usually follow up with a briefing from FSS as well.

 

[GopherEvertt?]

I find this to be a fairly good site. It has progs for the next couple of days as well as nexrad. It also has a turbulence alogrithim to estimate where the turblence may be.


http://adds.aviationweather.noaa.gov/

 

[Chickenhawk]

www.monkeyplan.com

 

[Blueline]

I use www.weatherclip.com for my weather. They offer wireless weather in the cockpit.

www.weatherclip.com

 

[falconpileit]

fltplan.com

I use fltplan.com for weather as well as filing all of my flight plans. I haven't talked to FSS in probably 5 years. You better get used to getting wx elsewhere if you get it from a FSS. They'll all be gone in the next couple of years.

 

[dispatchguy]

At work I use:

Our WSI PilotBrief
The AOPA Meteorlogix site (I like its graphical charts better than WSI - just keep the WSI site open to be legal)
The ADDS Site
But, if you want just one link to use for nearly all the weather you could ever want:

http://www.dispatcher.org/brief/adfbrief.html

The Weather Briefing Page of the ADF website (Airline Dispatchers Federation)

 

[Pilotadjuster]

Weather

Definitely the ADDS site - try the java tools for icing and airmets particularly. AOPA has easy to read weather as well.

DUATS for legal briefing if you don't feel like getting the FSS briefing or waiting for a briefer (depending upon when you call).