How to avoid turbulence and winds?

[Chief305]

Hello Pie!
This is called winds alloft, high altitude winds which cut or add flight time to your flight, a head wind slows down your flight time and makes you use up more fuel, whilst a tail wind speeds up your flight time and helps conserve fuel.
Windy.com is good for this, I reccomend using windy for planning.

Also Reccomend looking at this Tutorial by our dear freind Mr Sandstorm, it shows you how to do a flight plan and plan accordingly with winds and how to use fuel.

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Welcome back to the fourth and final installment of the flight planning series. Also the part you have all been waiting for the Global release. Today I will walk you thru setting up this route and flight plan we have been planning throughout this series. I’ll give you all the tips, and tricks you need to complete a successful flight. Weight & Balance So let’s talk about our weight and balance. This is the page we will be adding fuel, passengers, and cargo. [IMG_6831] This page is set u…

I hope this helps you.
Warm regards,
Chief305.