Many thanks to everyone so far for these online resources, the more the better in my understanding of met and upper winds! Will try these out next time I fly and see if I can get better results! Peter - I have to say I've come across your own site on this forum before and have read several of your IFR trip reports - they are absolutely fascinating and certainly interesting to read to say the least
I am just having a look now at the WeatherOnline charts for upper winds and not too sure how to work out the altitude for each chart. The charts are given at 950/900/850... and so on intervals but no height information is given - does anyone know how 950hPa relates to a height? I'm assuming it is the pressure decreases as altitude increases, but seems an odd way (for a pilot anyway) to present the data! Would one simply take, for example 900hPa from 1013hPa and *27ft for every hPa, to get say 3,051ft - or am I completely wrong?
Thanks for all the help & advice
