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.
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.
Not for me no, wind is still ridiculously strong and I seem to only get cross wind landings since the last patch
It’s supposed to do that 
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Hahaha, you know. In the opposite direction to where it should be.
Complete speculation but I think the fix was a placebo. It’s the only fix they didn’t go into detail on in the live stream and the patch note itself has absolutely no detail. I don’t believe this is something they could change and have it not be noticed. The in game feels identical to pre patch. Feels as though nothing as changed at all.
I think they wanted to see if they could shut us up without actually doing anything.
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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