First of all, this is not a request to fix the accuracies/inaccuracies of live weather. We’re all aware of the current state of live weather and Asobo’s wish to keep improving it.
This is a suggestion that they should add some way, in the sim, both before a flight AND during a flight, to look up live weather conditions for a particular airport or area.
Currently, in the World Map when planning a flight with live weather selected, you only get the current wind condition for an airport. There’s no way to know what the cloud cover, precip, visibility, pressure or temperature is for any given location. This is absolutely CRITICAL for flight planning.
PLEASE upvote this if you’re like me and just want to be able to plan a proper flight with live weather, regardless of how accurate it is or isn’t.
If they want to include all of that, I won’t complain lol. But at the minimum, just the current conditions for a given location. If they want to provide that in the form of a METAR or TAF, that’s fine.
And just to clarify, I’m talking about providing information on the current, in-sim live weather, NOT the current real world weather.
For instance, when you load a flight you get a display box during the cinematics with info on clouds, visibility etc but once you’re ready to fly, you have no resources for weather other than the wind on your display, aircraft permitting. When you’re in the World Map prior to flight, all you get are wind conditions. The sim has the information, you just have no way of looking it up.
First, I wish they would make the World Map available during flight and update it to include all relevant weather information for a particular location so we can look up conditions for our destination. Having a radar with higher fidelity would also be most welcome.
If the ATIS for your destination is within range of your departure, but most times it isn’t. IRL, you’d look up the weather via official sources by METAR, or use an aviation weather app. You’d find out exactly what the weather is for both your departure and destination prior to starting your flight and you’d have available resources to look weather up in flight.
Yes. But the issue is the weather in sim doesn’t always match the real world, so looking up real world weather, where you’d want specific wind or cloud data for example, is useless. The sim has the information on it’s own current weather, we just can’t access it.
this is critical and i’ve made a fuss about it since day 1.
The ATIS doesn’t match the in game conditions. Mine is stuck saying 3nm vis with 3 cloud layers at every airport since release in spite of in game weather weather conditions.
The winds reported when making a flightplan in the menu are different than what gets loaded in the Sim (like off by 180 degrees sometimes)
and to top it all of, as we all know, the in game weather doesn’t match, nor even approximate real world weather or real world METARs. In the US it’s constantly around 36-12 hours delayed
This has made testing extremely difficult. These kind of omissions were by design and not some oversight by the developers.
I can’t believe this only has 66, now 67 votes. I would love to say we could just use a real world aviation weather service but if I’m not mistaken there is a significant time delay between real world weather conditions and what is being reflected in msfs.
The time delay issue has been fixed for a month or two now. Trying a real world weather service is okay as long as you know the limitations. The weather is based on the forecast model for clouds, precip, etc and is blended with real world METAR observations (wind, pressure only) where stations exist. I’ve only seen about an hour or two discrepancy between what’s depicted and what the model has for the current time. I use Windy for weather and mostly compare with what I see in the Clouds layer.
+10 to this. not being able to look up in-sim weather is a huge drawback. we need to be able to pull up a live weather map showing radar and satellite, as well as look up local weather at nearby airports.
we’re not talking about “real life” weather we’re talking about weather in the sim. currently there is NO WAY to do this
This should have been fixed long ago. If they fixed the issues in-sim planning we would never have needed those METAR things because we could have planed our flight in the sim. I was not around here telling my point when this wish started. I’m glad you tried to avoid METAR. There was people around here back then supporting Meteoblue weather I enjoyed the sim back then and was hoping to see them fix the server issues they got “225@3kts”. But then they decided to start implementing METAR data instead
I don’t need the real weather into the sim. I need a realistic behaving weather like we had at release with servers that sends correct data and a planning tool that tells us how the weather will be in the sim.
It seems it’s too late for that now though. Now they focus on trying implement METAR instead METAR to create weather, how old is that feature? It’s a thing from the stoneage for me. No, i want them to move forward instead of backwards.
I want to say that i also use METAR for planning/predict the dynamic/always changing weather. But i only use it for planning/predicting the dynamic/always changing weather. I don’t think a pilot use it to create weather with because it’s impossible to get an accurate picture of weather from a simple METAR-reading. Besides when the pilot is done creating that weather a new METAR is reported with a complete different type of weather 30min later.
Meteoblue simulates weather, how could we possibly want a simple METAR created weather instead of a simulated weather in a flight simulator? I can’t understand it.
Exactly, but Asobo needs to get that data Meteoblue shows there correctly into the sim. That has been an issue since release. And that they should have focused on fixing instead of implement METAR. If they did that the METAR thing would mostly been fixed by it self if they did that. You can just check the forecasts on Meteblue and compare it with the METARs and you will instantly notice they often tells the same winds.
At release we had 225@3kts everywhere. And i’m 100% sure Meteoblue not predicting that everywhere. Instead of fix that server issue they started implement METAR data.
Just think about how much improvements we could have had in the sim weather since release if they just focused on one source of weather instead of completely change weather system. Now they need to focus on fixing the implementation of METAR that has too less data. So sad.
Think how cool it would be with in sim generated METAR-reports that you could have used in flightplanning tools outside of the sim or inside those EFB new airliners have and then planning against Meteoblue weather and know for sure they match the believable dynamic weather inside the sim.
That would have been an improvement.
Now they need to force the weather to be what METAR saysin a circle around every airport.
I’m done with this. I’m happy you created this thread back at release @NJFlyer606. Too bad it didn’t got noticed.
Yes, please provide more weather information! If you select a departure airport on the world map and you click on Flight Conditions and you select Live for Weather and Time, it just shows a large box on the right with the time and a picture of the sky. The space on the right should be utilised to display more weather information (ex. METAR in plain text). It would also be useful to be able to come back to the World Map during flights.
I enjoyed the sim back then and was hoping to see them fix the server issues they got “225@3kts”. But then they decided to start implementing METAR data instead 
METAR to create weather, how old is that feature? It’s a thing from the stoneage for me. No, i want them to move forward instead of backwards.