Can't configure moderate wind with small gust factor (base wind ignored, varies to zero)

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Brief description of the issue:

cant simulate moderate winds with small gust factor (steady, but not gusty)

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Detailed steps to reproduce the issue encountered:

Set 15mph winds, set 2mph gust, any gusts per min… Observe Wind graph completely disregarding the 15mph base wind value. Try again, with 15/17 (the normal metar notation). Observe that the wind graph still varies from 0 to 17

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Always, since downloading a year ago, keep hoping an update will fix it. I’ve seen other threads but they all are too general “fix this crap”… here is a specific test case that doesn’t work. If it’s just the graph I don’t care, then fix the graph. If I can’t have confidence in what you are showing me then what’s the point of configuring it anyway. I keep bouncing off this and going elsewhere (xplane or other games entirely) because I what want to do is break down landing scenarios and get solid on the crosswind correction techniques before I add in gusts… but I don’t seem to be able to get a relatively steady wind, which does happen (albeit not very often) in real life. Where I live this is pretty hard weather to findas a student in a real plane, especially with trees near the runway at my airport, but a sim should offer the chance to isolate and work on things under controlled conditions.

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Maybe read the text of my report? I specifically said I tried it both ways (15 and 2 and 15 and 17). You might also have noticed that I am a student pilot in real life too (yes US)… It certainly would be good if MS supported the standard notation, but I’ll settle for any notation that actually works.

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How is this “feedback”?? It’s a bug. There is a clear, mathematical contradiction between the inputs (the wind/gust factor) and the outputs (the wind graph). If the gust is interpreted as +/-2 and the base wind is 15, no part of the graph should be below 13… and if the intent is to list it in Metar form, then 15-17 should rage between 15 and 17, certainly never (or at least very rarely) below 13… The graph clearly shows nothing of the sort with many excursions from the expected range. This is really important because The loss of lift from a 17 to 0mph change is fantastically more challenging than a 17-13 transition.

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Thanks for the clarification :slight_smile: I guess “feedback-logged” might be less confusing as “investigation-pending” or “in-verification”

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