Very true here. It will be near impossible to fly seriously online with VATSIM once we get capable 3rd party aircraft with the live weather in its current state! Especially if the algorithms “predict” and inject different “live” weather conditions for a given location on successive spawns.
I understand the idea of them wanting to actually simulate actual weather dynamics in a living, breathing way from within the sim, but based on reality (as opposed to previous sims which just interpolate and inject METAR data and forecasts on a timed interval) however there has to be some level of consistency if its ever going to work online for serious use.
If the people using P3D and XP with active sky or any of the other weather injectors are all getting similar conditions, but 2 people spawned at adjacent gates at the same time in MSFS are seeing 2 totally different things thats a problem. Even moreso with winds aloft. Imagine the mess this will create with big VATSIM fly-ins like Cross the Pond . Everyone else is flying along with similar winds. But then you have the MSFS crowd all over the map in terms of groundspeed lol (some 225@3, some in europe, some did a flight before restarting, some ran as admin, yawn).
It hasnt been rocket science to get right in other sims, but it did take after market plugins to do so. If Meteoblue/Asobo cant/wont sort this out then honestly its the biggest (if only, perhaps) deception with this sim for me as this weather system was definitely a “selling point” towards the hardcore sim market. It was one of their big ways of ensuring its a “sim” and not a “game”.
They were quite open about the default aircraft not being “study level” and the scenery engine being a work in progress due to its ambition and scope. However, there were no hints that live weather only works for europe, or is only good enough if dont pay attention close enough lol.
One way or another we’ll get accurate, consistent weather. From who? Only time can tell. But my fingers are crossed for meteoblue as it seemed so promising lol.
I took a closer look at the winds after reading your post, whilst I got the correct airport winds, once I was in the air at 4000ft the winds turned to the default 225° 3Kts. Which wasn’t the case yesterday, where I had strong winds that reflected the local readings at the time.
I am wondering if the weather system is not at the moment able to simulate the winds. It feels like where there is data missing, it just selects the default and does not attempt to create something of an amalgamation of the winds between the areas that have real weather. I’ll keep a note of what is shown at the planning page and what actually appears in flight.
The clouds, rain and temp seem to be a fairly close simulation of the real world.
After a few tests at my home airport. It appears the winds are definitely broken today. Fine yesterday, nothing is now working. I just get the default 225° 3kts
You’d think that a safer way of dealing with no updated information would be to leave it as it was, the last time it had some. Having a constant default will and does look very odd.
Can we fix the gust function… I tried customer weather, 60 second gust at the same speed as the wind speed, same direction… It was the worst turbulence ever. Can get have an option to turn off gusting.
There’s also a bug where ATIS report Rain, but no rain present - also wind is incorrect. Look at screens here. it should be 16 kts. windsock is just calm. sky is about right. So it must be a bug.
I defintely agree with all you said here, 100% + 1 ! I’ve been posting 3 or 4 posts by describing precisely as much as possible I hope my experience with MFS2020 real weather and I’m glad to see more and more posts around about this engine weather that is a disaster and doesn’t match the reality with METAR/TAF or randomly based on Quantum Weather I don’t know?!
We should water ticket-reports as much as possible even copy-paste (kidding) because it has to be fixed on the next update on 27th which should have be done before the released date such as this issue is so obvious! I mostly bought this “sim” to avoid CB/TS flying my Cub or my DR400 not to fly throught TS without any updraft/dowdraft, no turb, without any sort of structural damages but flying through a Thunderstorm in MFS2020 it feels like flying on the rails like back in the days with FSX without Acitve sky!
How come for a “sim” that is supposed to be a revolution in terms of realism?!? … especially based on a bunch of advertisings claiming it as the best Engine-Weather ever! I do like jokes a lot and I 'll make some good ones everyday (I even always give myself some credits for the bad ones where nobody laugh except me) but this Engine-Weather with no turb in CB is a really really bad joke when you fly in real time weather as it supposed to be for the sake of realism!
So hopefully we will be heard and get it fixed on 27th but I doubt about it as I should have doubted before buying this beautiful game when I thought that I was buying the most realistic Flight Simulator ever!!! … but let’s hope Captains!
Of course they’ll fix this. This simulator is here to stay for a decade. They can’t have the claim “that the live weather doesn’t work” hanging on them all the time. Let’s hope soon, though.
. Everyone else is flying along with similar winds. But then you have the MSFS crowd all over the map in terms of groundspeed lol (some 225@3, some in europe, some did a flight before restarting, some ran as admin, yawn).
