Ross wrote:

I have a problem with this application providing me a flight route with
winds. I can click on the weather tab and get all the weather products,
but when I plan a flight I get no wind conditions. Any one else have
this problem? AOPA said to be sure that under Edit - Pilot that I have
my DUATS provider user name and password loaded. I do. And, it still
does not work. Any users that this function works.

Ross, I am an experienced user of Jeppesen's FlightStar IFR, the big
brother, if you will, to AOPA's Realtime Flight Planner.

I have encountered this frustrating problem many times over the last few
years in Flightstar IFR and in all cases, this problem was due to the
unavailability of the winds aloft forecast in the weather data sent down by
the DUATs service to which I connected (CSC or DTC). In other words, it
was a problem with DUATs and not the flight planner software.

To see if this is your case, first validate that the winds aloft data was
sent down to your session of RTFP. In the weather tab, do you see the
"Winds Aloft" heading on the right side of the window, about half way down?
I am assuming that this feature of FlightStar IFR is the same as RTFP.

If so, click this header. Typically the winds aloft text data should then
appear in the main weather window. In your case, I suspect that you will
not see this data.

If you don't, try switching DUATs service providers in the RTFP to your
account on the other DUATS provider (assuming you have an account with the
other DUATs provider), then download the weather data again. If your
flight is within the normal winds aloft forecast period offered by DUATs,
you should see the wind effect on your flight.




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Peter