How do i add crosswinds searched everywhere on the internet but cannot figure it out i know its a stupid question but can you help me
There is no silly question 
. Answer is very simple: you’ll never find a crosswind option in the custom weather settings, just use the existing wind layers and define a component wind with a direction that is not parallel to your runway or flight heading. If you do so, you’ll get by definition a crosswind.
I have exactly the same question. I’ve tried to set the wind layer, but somehow I can’t wrap my head around how this exactly should work.
The case is this:
- Fly from EHLE, which has an altitude of -12 ft AMSL. Yes, Dutch poldering…
- Open the weather panel to edit wind layers.
- There is a wind layer of somewhere around 2400 ft.
- Add another wind layer at 0 ft. The weather editor marks this as ground layer.
- Change the direction, speed, and gusts.
- Look at the wind sock: nothing changes.
- Change the direction, speed, and gusts for the 2400ft layer.
- Now the wind sock follows the changes. Which is weird, because that’s not the layer the plane currently is in.
So, in short: I don’t seem to know how I can set cross wind for the runway that I want to land at.
Even after editing both layers, the plane does not seem to respond to the set cross wind. I am always able to land straight in stead of the ‘crab and slip’ approach. Just for info: turbulence is set to medium. Don’t know if that does affect this scenario.
I really would like how I can set up the sim to practice x-wind landings at home some more, before I go out and rent a plane irl on a say, 10kts, cross wind day.