Label : GRIB

Disturbances in GRIB files

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Disturbances are not just atmospheric, it happens that they are also in the transmission of GRIB files !

Some of you alert me for two or three days about difficulties to receive files, or the absence of data displayed in iNavX.

After checking in requesting last night from my iPad, I was forced to note, once a file loaded after long minutes of waiting, that the data were not displayed on the chart. By checking the GRIB display with MacENC, only the wind vectors appeared, but not the contours. So I contacted by myself Richard Ray who, thanks to jet lag, was able to react immediately. Read more …

GRIB files in GPSNavX and MacENC

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The menu Weather in these two applications allows you to request a GRIB weather forecast file and then view it on the open map. The function Request GRIB send a request to the server Saildocs.com returning to the mailbox file requested. You can then get the file in attachment and store it to the location of your choice (²).

The function Show GRIB will then allow you to view the file on the map and scroll through the forecasts. You can usefully refer to MacENC Video Tutorial No. 3 on the website.

Here is a short technical summary of the weather module integrated in these two apps. Read more …