Forecast: Is It Flyable?

Forecast answers the only weather question that matters on flight day: can I fly right now, and when’s my best window? Find it at Field › Tools › Forecast · /field/tools/forecast.

Pick your site

1. In the left menu, click Field › Tools › Forecast.
2. Type an address in “Search location or use GPS…”, or click the crosshair button next to it (its tooltip says “Use my GPS location”) to use where you are.
3. Click “↻ Refresh” any time to pull the latest weather.

The location you set becomes your default and is the same one Field › Today › Flight Brief reads, so the brief and the Forecast agree.

Reading the verdict

Forecast scores each hour and shows a plain verdict:

• GO — conditions are within your limits.
• CAUTION — flyable, but something’s close to the edge (a gust, a chance of rain) — read the reasons before you launch.
• NO-FLY — a limit is blown (too much wind, rain, and so on).
• NIGHT — outside daylight. It’s flagged on its own, not as bad weather — it just isn’t a daytime window.

Every verdict lists the why — for example “Wind 27 mph” or “40% chance of rain” — so you’re never guessing what tripped it.

The details

Below the verdict you’ll see metric cards — “Wind @ 80m” (with gusts and direction), “Temp”, “Precip”, “Cloud”, “Solar”, “Kp”, “Dew”, and “Vis” — and an hour-by-hour table (Fly?, Wind, Dir, Gusts, Temp, Precip, Cloud, Vis and more) so you can scan the day for the calmest stretch. The “Wind Alt:” menu reads wind near the ground (“10 m (33 ft) — Ground”) or up at 80, 120 or 180 m, and the wind card follows it.

Your flying limits

The GO / CAUTION / NO-FLY call is measured against your limits, not a one-size rule. Out of the box the defaults are sensible for most work — around 25 mph max wind, a 20% rain-chance ceiling, and a daylight-only window, among others — and the score explains itself against them.

• To score against one aircraft, pick it in the “Drone:” menu on the Forecast page (default “No drone — general limits”). It uses that drone’s wind and rain specs from Office › Equipment › Equipment.
• To set your own limits, open the Forecast settings page (/caster/settings — it has no left-menu entry), and in the “Drone Profiles” box click “+ Add”. Set “Max Wind (mph)”, “Max chance of rain (%)”, “Daylight Only” and the rest, then click “Create Profile”.

Common questions

Why does it say NO-FLY when it looks fine outside? Something crossed one of your limits — most often wind or gusts higher up, which you don’t feel at ground level. The verdict lists the exact reason.

Why is tonight marked NIGHT instead of NO-FLY? Darkness under a daylight-only profile isn’t dangerous weather — it’s just not a flyable daytime window, so it gets its own label.

Does the Forecast location tie into anything else? Yes — it’s the same default site Field › Today › Flight Brief uses, so setting it once keeps both in sync.