XC Skies Soaring Forecasts

XC Skies is a proud supporter of the Leonardo Global Flight Database project, and will continue to support the collection of soaring flights across the planet. XC Skies was created by pilots just like you who demand a consistent source of additional soaring forecast information to make better informed decisions on when and where to fly.

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Flight track logs are an extremely valuable way to validate soaring forecasts. By comparing IGC track logs against the actual forecast available prior to a flight, we can start to quantify the validity of forecasts in ways never done before.

For example, here's Neville Hulett's 500+ km South African flight from December of 2008. His track (purple) is plotted across the forecast along the track flown. The red line is the predicted top of usable lift.

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XC Skies provides soaring forecasts in these ways:

XC Skies Mobile XC Skies Mobile provides a trimmed down featured version of XC Skies maps for web-enabled smart phones with full featured browsers. As of Feb 2010, the iPhone is currently supported, with slightly different versions coming for Android/Droid, Nexus One, and any other smart phone that uses a fully web compliant browser. Users of the mobile application should be familiar with the basics of XC Skies to get the most out of the forecasts.	m.xcskies.com
XC Maps The XC Maps is an application that allows you to interactively review potential soaring conditions across the globe. Most of our XC Map layers are computed at 1km resolution. Read more XC Maps documentation for individual parameters.	http://www.xcskies.com/maps
XC Route & Point Forecasts XC routes and point forecasts are now integrated into XC Maps. These easy to use tools allow quick exploration of potential XC routes and the upcoming soaring trends. Get the most out of the day with these tools.	http://www.xcskies.com/explore
XC QuickCasts The XC QuickCast application provides an extremely light bandwidth alternative to interactively exploring the Maps applications. QuickCasts are designed to give users an instant overview of a pre-defined view for a region of interest. QuickCasts combines cross section routes, point forecasts, and area maps in a simple table layout with thumbnails. All image sizes are optimized to be as small as possible. A single URL will automatically show the user virtually everything they want to know about the day without needing to click too much. Read more about this product XC Skies QuickCast Tutorial	http://www.xcskies.com/quickcast

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