I built FlyCheck in a Berlin hotel room while waiting for weather that never cleared. MVFR, occasional light snow, −5°C, overcast at FL10.
I was supposed to fly that day at EDAY Strausberg — my first time in a Skyleader 400. Instead I spent hours refreshing browser tabs, trying to work out whether conditions might improve enough to make the trip to the airport worthwhile. Every check meant a website, an ICAO code, dense text, and squinting for a trend.
The anxiety of not knowing whether to wait or cancel is worse than bad weather itself.
That flight never happened. But FlyCheck did.
— Alan Soon