Recent content by Greg Lutz

I have not left the airport. It's only about 2:20 from my airport in MA so food has not been an issue. It's either the first or last stop depending on which way I'm going

I've always heard that if the connecting rods are not torqued properly that catastrophic failure will manifest itself within 200 hours.

This let's you quickly look at weather across distance browsable by time for a 3 day window https://www.avxcwx.com/?stations=KPYM,KBDL,K1B1,KAVP,KLHV The data is nothing new because it's publicly available but I had not found a free site that presents the data this way

I had a 150 horse Cardinal so I was pretty much in the same place. Replaced it with a 210 so useful load is much less of an issue

I'd like to see that. Anyone know how it compares to USAF museum in Dayton?

I had one of the original iFly units. Loved it but it was not very robust. Kept using iFly on phone for a few years after until I installed Garmin units in my panel and went with their phone app for compatibility.

Yeah, I did not glean that from the screenshot on their website. Anyhow, AVXCWX is free and quick. Again, not meant to be a preflight tool, just a means to ascertain the likelihood of a successful trip over the next few days.

KMFV is always my last stop (or first if heading south) on that trip. Not so much on the food but gas is always a good price.

Weatherspork looks nice but it does not appear to do what AVXCWX does which is weather over distance browsable by time. And, yes free is important to me. I already give Garmin plenty of my money for this publicly available data

Per Dana's request, the search is now placed on the URL so you can bookmark different searches. If the search is not on the URL the last search from your last visit is used. Like this https://www.avxcwx.com/?stations=KPYM,KBDL,K1B1,KAVP,KLHV

Sounds like your Warrior could use an engine ;)

That would not be terrible but I have other things queued up to do first. Also, TAFs and METARS are available all over the place. I wrote this page because I could not find a site that gave me a picture across distance over time Also, if you compare TAFs to this app you will find them amazingly...

METARS are a picture in the moment. TAFs only give you about 24 hours where the NOAA data goes out 3 days this is intended to be a planning tool not a preflight tool intended to answer the question: Can I get there and back this weekend?

If no airports along the way, look here https://vlab.noaa.gov/web/mdl/nbm-stations-v4.0 you might come up with something like this: KPYM KBDL 46014 OKPC1 MBMW1 note that's just an example because not non-airport stations are in CA

These are not METARS, this is the NOAA nation blend. There's a link on the info page to all the stations included. At some point I'll add functionality to find non-airport stations but that's down the road a bit