{
  "id": 5435,
  "title": "Winds aloft and weather data in general",
  "url": "/competitions/flight2-milestone/discussion/5435",
  "author_name": "HAL",
  "post_date": "2013-08-18T14:33:40.627000",
  "votes": 0,
  "comment_count": 0,
  "views": 960,
  "content": "<p>I have looked through the training data, and it seems the winds aloft data is not correctly captured in the dataset. &nbsp;There are no wind direction and speed values in the fdwindaltitude file and I can't find anywhere else this information is cross-referenced in the data. &nbsp;How does the simulator simulate winds aloft? Will we have forecast winds like we would in the real world for the simulator? &nbsp;Will the simulator use historical weather from the flights it is evaluating, and if so will we have the forecasts for those days so we can base our algorithm on those forecasts? &nbsp;</p>",
  "messages": [
    {
      "id": 28894,
      "postDate": "2013-08-18T14:33:40.627Z",
      "content": "<p>I have looked through the training data, and it seems the winds aloft data is not correctly captured in the dataset. &nbsp;There are no wind direction and speed values in the fdwindaltitude file and I can't find anywhere else this information is cross-referenced in the data. &nbsp;How does the simulator simulate winds aloft? Will we have forecast winds like we would in the real world for the simulator? &nbsp;Will the simulator use historical weather from the flights it is evaluating, and if so will we have the forecasts for those days so we can base our algorithm on those forecasts? &nbsp;</p>"
    }
  ],
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