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Weather Scout

Weather Scout helps you choose a FlyHub route based on current airport weather. Use it when you do not only want a specific airline or airport, but want a flight that matches the weather you feel like flying. Examples:
  • A clean VFR departure with a more challenging arrival.
  • A short route into IFR or low visibility.
  • A route with gusts, crosswind, fog, snow, rain, or thunderstorm.
  • A scenic VFR flight touching airports from your scenery scanner.
  • A VIP manual-bid route with more interesting weather.
Weather Scout uses current METAR data, FlyHub routes, your filters, optional scenery data, and selected aircraft to rank route matches.

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Where to find it

Weather Scout appears in multiple FlyHub areas:
PageWhere it appearsRoute source
SchedulesFree Flight route modesCurrent official FlyHub schedules
Historical RoutesHistorical route modesPremium historical route catalog
VIP OpsManual VIP Flight tabVIP manual-bid schedules
The experience is mostly the same in each place. The difference is the type of route being searched.

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Access

Weather Scout follows the access rules of the page you use it from.
LocationAccess
SchedulesFree users can use available free-rotation airlines. Premium users can use all eligible official airlines.
Historical RoutesRequires Captain.
VIP OpsRequires Captain.
Free users in Schedules still follow the same airline access rules as Manual Bid and Scheduler. Premium-only airlines are locked.

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How Weather Scout works

Weather Scout starts from FlyHub routes you can actually book, then ranks matching routes by the weather at the origin and destination. For example:
  1. You choose filters such as airline, aircraft, origin, destination, distance, or block time.
  2. FlyHub finds matching bookable routes.
  3. FlyHub checks current weather for the origin and destination airports.
  4. FlyHub ranks those routes by your Weather Profile, Weather Target, condition rules, scenery preference, and aircraft filters.
  5. Weather Scout returns up to 10 ranked route cards.
This keeps the feature focused on flights you can book, not random airports with no FlyHub route attached.

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Weather profiles

Weather Profile controls the overall ranking style.
ProfileUse it when
BalancedYou want a normal dispatch mix. It considers VFR, IMC, wind, ceiling, visibility, and route variety.
Weather HuntYou want harder weather. It gives more weight to IFR, LIFR, low visibility, RVR, gusts, wind, storms, and similar signals.
VFR WindowYou want cleaner flying. It prefers VFR, better visibility, higher ceilings, lighter winds, and fewer hazards.
VFR Out / Challenge InYou want a clean departure into a harder destination.
Profiles rank results. They are not the same as hard filters. If you choose VFR Window and also require Snow, FlyHub will try to find the cleanest routes that still match Snow. That may return no results because the two goals conflict.

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Weather target

Weather Target controls which side of the route matters most.
TargetWhat it means
Both endsOrigin and arrival weather both matter.
OriginDeparture weather matters most. Arrival weather is still shown as context.
ArrivalDestination weather matters most. Origin weather is still shown as context.
Use this when you care about a specific kind of challenge. Examples:
  • Choose Arrival if you want a difficult approach.
  • Choose Origin if you want a difficult departure.
  • Choose Both ends if you want interesting weather across the whole route.

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Hard condition filters

Hard condition filters are stricter than profiles. Each condition can be:
SettingMeaning
-Ignore this condition.
YesRequire this condition.
NoReject routes with this condition.
Available condition rules can include:
  • Thunderstorm.
  • Heavy precip.
  • Snow.
  • Fog.
  • IFR.
  • MVFR.
  • RVR.
  • Wind.
  • Gusts.
  • Crosswind.
  • VFR.
Use hard filters carefully. They can easily remove every route if combined with a profile that points in the opposite direction. Examples:
SetupWhat can happen
VFR Window + require SnowFlyHub looks for the cleanest routes that still have snow. Results may be rare.
Weather Hunt + exclude IFR, MVFR, wind, gusts, and RVRWeather Hunt has fewer weather signals to rank, so results may be mild or empty.
Require Thunderstorm + short distance + specific airport pairThere may simply be no current route with that weather.

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Manual Bid filters

Weather Scout also uses route filters similar to Manual Bid. Depending on the page, these can include:
  • Airline or VIP operator.
  • Historical airline version.
  • Aircraft.
  • Origin airport.
  • Destination airport.
  • Distance range.
  • Block time range.
  • Historical year.
Airport filters support full ICAO codes and prefixes. Examples:
  • KJFK searches a specific airport.
  • EG searches airports whose ICAO starts with EG.

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Scenery preference

Weather Scout can use airports from your Scenery Scanner.
OptionMeaning
OffDo not use scenery as a route factor.
PreferPrefer routes touching scanned or manually added scenery airports.
OnlyOnly keep routes touching at least one airport from your scenery list.
Weather profiles are scenery-agnostic. Scenery is controlled only by the Scenery Preference section. If Only removes too many routes, switch to Prefer.

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Top Weather Airports

Top Weather Airports shows airports with notable current weather. There are two main modes:
ModeWhat it highlights
Worst WXAirports with stronger weather signals such as IFR, LIFR, low visibility, RVR, gusts, wind, storms, fog, snow, or multiple hazards.
Best WXAirports with cleaner flying weather such as VFR, good visibility, high or no ceiling, light winds, no gusts, no fog, no convective weather, and fresh METARs.
Clicking an airport lets you use it as:
  • Origin.
  • Destination.
This quickly turns a weather airport into a route filter.

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Refresh countdown

Top Weather Airports includes a refresh countdown. When the countdown reaches the refresh window while you are in the Weather Scout menu, FlyHub checks for updated weather leaderboard data automatically.

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Route cards

Weather Scout returns route cards instead of a simple grid. Each route card shows:
  • Rank number.
  • Flight number or VIP/manual-bid flight label.
  • Airline or VIP operator logo.
  • Origin and destination.
  • Plain-language route briefing.
  • Distance.
  • Block time.
  • Scenery status.
  • Departure weather summary.
  • Arrival weather summary.
  • Full origin METAR.
  • Full arrival METAR.
  • TAF loading controls.
  • Aircraft selection.
  • Book action.
The departure and arrival summaries help you see which airport has the weather that caused the route to rank.

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METAR and TAF

Weather Scout uses METARs for current weather ranking. Route cards show the full METAR for both airports, plus parsed information such as:
  • Flight category.
  • Wind.
  • Visibility.
  • Ceiling.
  • RVR.
  • Observed time.
  • Stale METAR warnings.
TAFs are available from the route cards when you want forecast context.

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Weather freshness

Weather data can age. Weather Scout shows trust signals such as:
  • Updated time.
  • Observed time.
  • METAR stale warnings.
  • Leaderboard refresh countdown.
If a METAR is stale, treat the weather ranking as a hint, not a guarantee.

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No results and blocker messages

If Weather Scout returns no routes, FlyHub explains what blocked the search. Examples:
  • No routes match Snow + VFR Window.
  • No selected VIP operators match the selected aircraft.
  • Scenery-only removed most or all routes.
  • No routes matched the selected airports, distance, block time, airlines, or aircraft.
  • Current hard condition rules rejected the available routes.
  • Some matching airports could not be placed on the map.
  • The route existed, but current weather did not match the selected profile strongly enough.
Use those messages as the next action guide. Common fixes:
  • Clear one hard condition rule.
  • Switch from VFR Window to Balanced or Weather Hunt.
  • Change Scenery from Only to Prefer.
  • Clear one airline/operator or aircraft filter.
  • Widen the distance or block-time range.
  • Remove one airport prefix.
  • Search again later when METARs change.

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Booking from Weather Scout

Weather Scout books through the same booking system as the page you opened it from.
LocationBooking result
SchedulesCreates a normal Free Flight schedule booking.
Historical RoutesCreates a historical booking.
VIP OpsCreates a VIP manual-bid booking.
After booking, open My Flights to start the flight.

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Tips

  • Use Weather Hunt + Arrival for challenging approaches.
  • Use VFR Window + Both ends for cleaner scenic flying.
  • Use VFR Out / Challenge In when you want a manageable departure and a harder destination.
  • Use Top Weather Airports first if you want inspiration.
  • Use hard condition rules only after the basic profile works.
  • Use Scenery Prefer before Scenery Only.
  • If you get no results, read the blocker messages before changing random filters.