ATR - Weather radar very insensitive

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Brief description of the issue:

ATR weather radar is very insensitive. It shows only very hard rain and light rain it doesn’t show at all. It’s as if the color palette has been set wrong to the API so only major rain is shown.

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Detailed steps to reproduce the issue encountered:

Can be seen with live weather but easier to reproduce with manual weather. Set weather to e.g. 7 mm / hour and radar shows nothing.

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Build Version # when you first started experiencing this issue:

WU13, first ATR release.

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Pretty sure this is a sim limitation , the weather radar implementation in MSFS is not accurate by any stretch and does not actually simulate how a weather radar actually works.

For me in every single addon it is either never working or displaying totally incorrect data and is pretty much useless at avoiding weather.

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It works better in other aircraft.

A310 live weather

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A310 preset with 7-8 mm/h rain

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ATR live weather

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ATR rain preset with 7-8 mm/h rain

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Even extreme rain barely shows up.

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Edit: Extreme rain shows up when in air. Point still stands that the thresholds for the colors seem to be off and it takes major rain to show anything.

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This bug warning deserves to prosper! In fact, I tested it here and the most that appears is a few insignificant lines when in heavy weather on the ATR weather radar, when artificially created in the simulator.

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