UAV Forecast has changed (and is now charging)

General Drone Discussion
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You Cant

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Yeah, thatā€™s one area where Airdata is limited - doesnā€™t give you wind direction nor cloud cover either. OK I can get that from Windy or PredictWind but UAV Forecast was convenient to open up a single page and see everything at glance.

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Its telling me there is strong winds and gust in my area nowā€¦ in reality there is hardly a breath on my fair skin I must say! :rofl:

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Really disappointing that they did not even bother to put a message onto their app telling us of an impending change - oh well they wont be getting my money!
I have downloaded Airdata and that combined with Windy will have to meet my needs

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Check the location - It has an annoying habit of picking a random location nearby when it opens. Iā€™m in Somerset and despite me entering my home location each time it never remembers and gives me Bristol or Cardiff instead, where conditions can be completely different. Must be a setting somewhere..

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Yes I noticed but was only a mile away. But TBH it did whip up a breeze about an hour after I posted. Will use again. Ta. :+1:

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I like.

Bye Bye UAV Forecast.

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No one answered my question. Is Dtonecast any good? At first glance it looks ok. Havnt tried it in the field yet.

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Do you want nil returns ?

What does a site search bring up ?

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I thought this would be an appropriate place and time to discuss UAV Forecast alternativesā€¦

edit A site search returns very very little actually.

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Probably no one uses it :frowning:

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Gavin has a video out about it now :slight_smile:

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Someone needs to send @GAVINHR an invite to GADC :smiley:

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Not sure I agree with him.

One of the features I like about UAV Forecast was that I could set the limits higher to allow for different drones - or indeed my own criteria.

With Airdata it is likely to say not good to fly, when the wind is actually not that bad - from a visual aspect I prefer to set my wind at say 25mph and have it green than to have it showing red.

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Thank youā€¦ What I thought, seems a bit daft, no direction!

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Heā€™d write paragraphs when he could have just said 5 words.

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For a minute there I thought you were referring to my partner :wink:

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Used the app since my Mavic 1 days but its useless now. 3 hours is worthless for planning or even same-day trip purposes.

I like the customisation of go/no-go parameters and the winds aloft but that isnā€™t worth the Ā£50+ a year they want.
There are other weather apps a third of the price or even free for the same functionality.

Looking at the 1* reviews theyā€™re going to get a lot of uninstalls.

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Thatā€™s pretty good, combines two apps together. No need to check both Drone Assist and UAV Forecast.

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Iā€™ve deleted it, before the advent of mobile phones and Apps I used to look at how much tall trees were swaying and I still do which costs nothing.

So itā€™s back to looking out of the window and PCā€¦.:rofl:

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