A forecast that's clear and smooth at eight thousand feet tells you nothing about the ridge you're crossing at four hundred. The weather that decides a rotorcraft day — mechanical turbulence, rotor off the lee slope, valley fog that burns off two hours later than the field — happens in a layer most aviation weather barely resolves.
METAR, TAF, winds aloft, radar and G-AIRMETs already ship in the app.
Route planning in the app is terrain-aware today — it knows the elevation profile along your route and already derives a turbulence estimate from terrain and wind. Weather isn't a new discipline for us so much as a deepening of something that's shipping.
Elevation along any route, at the resolution the planner uses now.
Forecasting a corridor is far more tractable than forecasting everywhere.
Every flight is a measurement. Actual wind and ride quality, at altitude, over time — the ground truth to check a model against.
Building the model is the cheap half. Aviation-grade weather — vendor radar, lightning, satellite, high-resolution model output — is commercially licensed and priced for companies with revenue. The free and open sources that make a prototype possible often carry terms that don't permit a commercial product.
So we're scoping the licence before scoping the feature. It's the right order, it's why this sits at the far end of the roadmap, and we'd rather say that than imply a ship date we can't stand behind.
Soar Weather doesn't exist. This page is here so you know where we're pointed and can tell us if it's the wrong direction. The weather in the app today — METAR, TAF, winds aloft, radar, G-AIRMETs, decoded and tied to each leg — is real and ships now.