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Welcome to XC Skies
 XC Skies is proud to bring you XC Maps, a soaring forecast tool for most of the flyable locations on planet Earth. Our goal is to provide timely and useful soaring parameters to allow pilots to make better decisions on when and where to fly.
Getting Started
To get started, simply create your account and sign up for XC Maps. You don't need to be a meteorologist or scientist to use XC Maps, and chances are you already know how to utilize our soaring forecasts anyway. Most of the map layers (parameters) are simple predictions of the basic soaring ingredients that we pilots look for on a daily basis. Take the 3 minute Quick Tour to get started.
How it Works
Our XC Maps are visual layers of basic soaring parameters, wrapped up in an interactive application for use with any popular browser over the Internet. You can use these soaring forecast maps from anywhere in the world. We run our application once a day for the global soaring predictions, and twice daily for the North American maps products (RUC and NAM/ETA). The global forecasts are available for the next three upcoming days at 3 hour intervals. View the model run schedule.
Visit our 3 Minute Quick Tour to get familiar with using XC Maps.
Other related information:
Recent News
XC Skies adds sounding features on XC Maps allowing the review of model-based sounding profiles as well as every recently launched balloon sonde across the planet.
XC Skies is bridging the gap in an unprecedented effort to reliably provide soaring forecasts for most locations on planet Earth.
A Google Group has been setup to be the official location for discussing this application and soaring forecasts relating to this application. This will be the interface to respond and talk to XC Skies and friends.
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Real-Time Surface Winds for North America
As a free service we have teamed up with MesoWest from the University of Utah to provide another Google Maps application with the capability of displaying surface observations across North America. There are currently 15,000 active stations and the MesoWest database is constantly growing.
Click here to view real-time surface winds.
Read the FAQ here.
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