Is weather effects accurately simulated?

[IDNeon]

I’m wanting to know more about if weather such as wind shear are accurately simulated in MSFS?

Thanks.

[Delta2k5]

There are already many threads in here about this question or about complaints including hundreds of opinions.

As nothing changed on the AAU1 beta in these regards you can take a look at this one for example as it deals with turbulence and gusts/windshear:

Thanks Asobo, this turbulence is absolutely spot on!

Until now there hasn’t been any realistic feeling turbulence in any flight simulator (that is probably why people are complaining because people are not used to it). But in real life in turbulent conditions you constantly have to use the aileron to compensate, it’s actually really hard to control a plane in these conditions. What we have now is really wonderful and finally we can practice some challenging approaches instead of the plane being on rails all the time. Please use this poll to vot…

[IDNeon]

Thanks, that thread is great - but it doesn’t clarify something for me. Is it now in the game or is it something I have to turn on or download extra? I use live weather. I don’t really notice much from the weather but then I probably wouldn’t know what to expect from it anyway. Maybe that’s why just sometimes I randomly flip around and spiraly out of control

[blueline308]

No, not really.

[DementedCorn327]

What is implemented in the sim are gusts, down/up drafts. Wind shear are not simulated. There is a request in the wishlist section for this kind of effect: Realistic Dangerous Weather - Physics Simulation