u/SkySight-Weather

SkySight’s new 100-metre Wind and Ridge Forecast model has left beta and is now generally available across all SkySight forecast regions. It works great for mountain flying, helping you find the fastest ridges and avoid getting dumped. It's very useful even in just hilly terrain, as the local flow peaks tend to be good for thermal formation.

We trained this model on 100m OpenFOAM CFD simulations over the entirety of our forecast areas, running on GPU's. We think this will be as big of a step forward as when we brought wave forecasts into the cockpit in 2017.

Would love to hear what everyone thinks, especially those who've been flying with it via Copilot. I'm available to answer questions.