Sailors my friends who love regattas and offshore racing, if you are provided with excellent French instrumentation OF (¹), enjoy ! With the last version 2.0.81 Weather4D Routing & Navigation now supports full transfer of performance data to the NKE Topline bus. Non-Weather4D users please refrain… Read more …
Category : iOS – iPadOS
Share GRIB files with Air Share [Update]
More and more of you have adopted the Iridium GO! for its easy way to request GRIB files, directly from Weather4D and some other applications. But some also want to transfer these files to a PC to import them into Windows software. (as you know, no one is perfect !). An easy solution is available : the messaging app Air Share, compatible iOS/iPadOS (¹). [Update 30 th 2022] Warning : the application has changed its identifier code on the AppStore. Read more …
Sailing with iSailor [Update]
The manual “ Sailing with iSailor » in French has just undergone a complete overhaul with Apple Pages.
- Much more readable portrait format interface
- Revision of illustrations
- Reviewing links
- Glossary review
- Insertion of a summary with return from all pages
- Miscellaneous text corrections.
Weather4D with Mac M1
We've been talking about it since 2020 in the Facebook group of Weather4D users, the messaging app Weather4D Routing & Navigation (¹) now works on Mac with ARM processors : Mac M1 and later, from the system macOS 11.x (“Big Sur” et seq.). Simply connect the Mac to a GPS receiver or NMEA gateway via Wi-Fi to receive the position and navigation data of the instruments. Read more …
Weather4D Routing User Guide
New publication of User Guide to Weather4D Routing in French version. Warning, it is a new version to download which replaces the previous one (¹). The old guide should be removed from your library in the Apple Books app. Read more …
Weather4D Lite User Manual
New publication of User Guide to Weather4D Lite in French version. Warning, it is a new version to download which replaces the previous one (¹). The old guide should be removed from your library in the Apple Books app. Read more …
Bad weather for iNavX [Update]
What I've been planning for a while has finally happened. : iNavX lost Navionics mapping ! It seemed obvious that the historic contract which allowed iNavX to have privileged access to Navionics cartography, since the origin of the application designed by Richard Ray in 2009, was threatened. Since then things have changed a lot : repurchase of the application by NavX Studio (¹), acquisition of Navionics by Garmin (²), generalization of the annual chart subscription policy (³)… Read more …
Predict storms with Weather4D
In Weather4D (all versions) most weather models provide a data called CAPE.
Convective Available Potential Energy, in French : Energie potentielle de convection disponible. Behind this obscure acronym hides a powerful storm forecasting tool. CAPE is measured in Joules per kilogram of air (J/Kg) and defines the vertical buoyancy energy of a hot air particle in a colder atmosphere. In other words, vertical acceleration of the air particle will be directly related to this energy measurement. Read more …
The Logbook in Weather4D Routing & Navigation
With update 2.0.57 Entering a logbook is now available in Weather4D Routing & Navigation. Data transfer to web interface Navygatio (¹) allows logbook entries to be recorded in near-real or delayed time depending on whether or not there is an internet connection during navigation. Read more …
Weather4D and iOS LAN
From iOS/iPadOS 14.5, A new setting has appeared proposing to allow applications to access the Local area network. This option is offered when installing a new application, but is not necessarily activated if the application is already installed when the OS is updated.
Since then, Many of you are no longer able to connect certain applications (Weather4D, iNavX, aso.) Wi-Fi-connected devices : Iridium GO!®, Multiplexers, Miscellaneous NMEA gateways. To do this, you must activate this "Local network" option for the application concerned. Read more …