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Know where the lift is, before you rig.

Our own soaring model, built on several high detail weather models and recalculated every three hours: thermal strength, cloud base and a realistic cross country distance, up to sixteen days ahead.

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SoarScope showing thermal strength over western and central Europe, hour by hour through the day

Every layer a pilot asks for.

Check out individual data sets in their own layer. Here are some examples!

SoarScope PFD layer over Europe. Distances you can really fly.
SoarScope XC speed layer over Europe. Likely avg. speed, per hour.
SoarScope Soarable height layer over Europe. Where thermals top out.
SoarScope Thermal strength layer over Europe. Realistic avg. thermal climb.
SoarScope Cu base layer over Europe. Altitude where Cu forms.
SoarScope Cu cover layer over Europe. Whether Cu forms, and how much.
SoarScope Wind layer over Europe. At the ground and higher up.
SoarScope Rain layer over Europe. Nobody likes flying wet.

Distances you can really fly

Point forecast

Tap anywhere. Get the whole day.

Click any spot on the map for its full day: climb, cloud base, wind at height and how far you could go, hour by hour.

The point forecast panel for Aalen-Elchingen in southern Germany, with the climb, cloud and wind through the day

Hour by hour

Watch the day build.

Slide from morning to evening and see where the thermals switch on, where they peak and when they fade.

Thermal strength around Aalen-Elchingen at 11:00, 13:00 and 15:00

16 days ahead

Plan the week, not just tomorrow.

Look sixteen days out to spot the good days early. The forecast is recalculated every three hours, so it sharpens as the day comes closer.

Recalculated every 3 hours

The date picker open over the PFD map, showing sixteen forecast days

At height

Not just at the ground.

Wind and temperature at several heights, so you know what is waiting at cloud base and not only on the airfield.

Wind around Aalen-Elchingen at about 1,500 m, with wind barbs

On the launch point, too.

The whole forecast fits in your pocket. Check the day over coffee, and again on the grid.

SoarScope on a phone, showing the point forecast for one spot

Data sources

What goes into the forecast.

Every map on SoarScope is our own calculation. It starts from a handful of well known, trusted sources, which our model turns into thermals, cloud and distance for glider pilots. We are grateful to all of them.

Weather, terrain and satellite inputsSoarScope soaring modelYour forecast

  • Weather

    A few of the places our model starts from

    • ICON-EUSource: Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD)
    • GFSNOAA, National Weather Service
    • ECMWF IFS© ECMWF, CC BY 4.0

  • Satellite

    Eyes on the clouds, every few minutes

  • Terrain

    Every sunny slope that kicks off a thermal

    • Copernicus DEM© DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018, provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA

  • Map

    So you know which field is under you

  • Aviation

    Where not to fly, and where to land

A forecast is a model of the weather, not the weather. Check the sky before you fly. Airspace is a snapshot of one AIRAC cycle and not for navigation.

Tomorrow could be the day.

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