Did the latest update make it windier in Career mode? That last few flights I did in a 172 were very very windy.
I thought it was supposed to be less windy?
Doesn’t seem to have been fixed.
Seems like it, I just experienced a crash due to wind speeds oscillating from 40 to 100mph as i approached the airport. Carried my 172 way above top speed.
I don’t know if it’s related, but sometimes the wind blows in the opposite direction to the runway that the controller or the mission requires you to land on. This is a serious error.
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I think it is not career related specifically, it is the “realistic” turbulence as Asobo understands it (absurd and instant high frequency wind changes…everywhere)
But after the last update you can finally turn off the live weather and then it works, basicaly you fly the good old “Clear sky”, keep in mind that even then it can be some wind on the cruise altitude, but landing is fine.
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It is crazy that the sim interface doesn’t give us much information about the weather to begin with - just categorical conditions and visibility at the arrival and departure airports. As if that’s all that’s necessary to make good decisions.
It’s even crazier that the time slider, 24 hour history, and “live” weather are producing such unpredictable results. Before patch 3, it seemed at least that having the slider on live produced fairly accurate results compared to real world (given that the mission was not supposed to use a preset). But now, after being “fixed,” it’s even less predictable and less correlatable to real-world weather. My gut tells me (based on a little evidence) that most of our weather correlation issues stem from a mix of the 24-hour history implementation, and the career mode locking certain flights into presets.
I get the idea behind the 24-hour history concept, but it doesn’t seem to be paying off. And I haven’t heard anybody say they wanted that, anyway. Just make “live” weather be whatever it is at the current time. It would probably be a lot less hassle for everybody. The only way making a 24-hour look back valuable is if your in-sim weather depiction was accurate and the in-sim planning tools matched those of the real world, and they’re nowhere in the ballpark.
But now the weather isn’t even matching the real-world tools, so we’re even more in the dark, which I didn’t think was possible.
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Not for me no, wind is still ridiculously strong and I seem to only get cross wind landings since the last patch
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It’s supposed to do that 
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Hahaha, you know. In the opposite direction to where it should be.
I also just had to abandon my first medium cargo mission.
It was based between japanese islands and the intro said it will be a calm flight.
For landing I had 40kts of side wind, which made it absolutely impossible to land the plane. Even when I got it to the ground it flipped sidewards and crashed. Noone would send a pilot on that kind of mission in RL…
Also the whole flight was very windy and oscillating.
For anyone interested, I made a long post about why the career-mode winds are doing what they’re doing and how to get better insight in order to make good decisions, along with ideas for improvement.
It includes an update about some more recent findings that actually make some sense as to the way it’s designed to be implemented. Hopefully it’s useful to some of y’all.
Note that it doesn’t exclude the possibility of some bugs that still exist. Those should still be reported, but you can at least compare what’s happening in the sim, to what the sim thinks it’s supposed to be giving you, to what’s happening in real-life (historical) weather before doing so.
I meant the opposite opposite direction
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I found a “fog dome” over Madison. I flew some patterns in Free Flight at the arrival strip prior to taking the mission (as always). It was clear and calm. On arriving at Madison to land my Medium Cargo Mission, everywhere was clear for miles……except for a “fog dome” over the runway. It was 1500ft AGL and approx 2nm around the airport. I did two go-arounds before finally happening upon the approach on my third attempt. Is this some sort of challenge built into the sim? There was a muni airport a short distance away, but I was unable to divert. I doubt real world pilots would expose there $Million aircraft to such conditions. Like the “rocky dirt turf” at Sleepy Hollow, Texas. I find this simulator mostly frustrating, and less fun than it could be. Thanks for tolerating my rant.
Madison, WI? It’s been marginal visibility in Madison off and on over the past two days, with several hours of LIFR conditions recently, like this:
KMSN 071553Z 17005KT 1/2SM R36/4000V6000FT BR OVC002 M01/M01 A2988 RMK AO2 SFC VIS 3/4 SLP127 T10061006
What was the in-sim time of the flight?
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That particular event occurred about 10 days prior to my post. I did go to METAR prior to the flight, and it showed clear weather, which it was, except for over the airport. I used this as an example of the sim “challenges”. Thanks for your feedback.
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The reason timing is important is to differentiate which thing in the sim is providing the most incorrect info - the METAR, the generated weather, or something else. Except for a few overnight hours on the 30th and 1st, it was pretty nasty at MSN from Christmas to New Years with low ceilings and/or visibility throughout.