Best plane to fly into hurricane Ida?

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I did 2 flights yesterday out of KMSY in a WP-3D, WoW!

The air traffic, wind and rain was incredible.

I went up to FL320 looking for the eye. Never did find it but cruising around was fun.

I do hope Asobo pulls the pin on the weather safety. It was all to easy. The weather modeling is dialed way back.

But I did see a water spout or Tornado when I dropped through a hole heading to the surface area. I forgot I took a screen shot. Need to look at it.

Graphics wise, everything was awesome.

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Actually, the weather model seems dialed back so much, a 152 probably would have been fine.

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Thank you for taking my post as it was meant to be. :slight_smile: You can get away with some pretty ridiculous stuff in FS 2020 (at least for the moment) that would kill you in real life.

But then again, that’s a big part of the fun. :slight_smile:

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Flown into Ida a few times:

  • In MSFS with the Airbus A320N (A32NX) and the default Boeing 787
  • In X-Plane 11 with the Airbus A321N (Toliss)

Both worked fine but it was definitely harder in X-Plane due to (more) correctly modeled wind gusts: these will make you (almost) overspeed at one time and then suddenly (almost) have you stalled. It requires you to manage your speed in such a way that there’s enough headroom in both directions. That’s something you don’t see in MSFS.

The view in MSFS was stunning though.

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That storm also made IT news: