Was going to say the same. I simply cannot fathom some of the decisions that were made.
And even more especially all the twitch/youtube streamers out there that are making free advertisement for the sim and currently can only fly in the dark during prime time since thatâs when and where most ATC and traffic is online.
One streamer just yesterday said that this is the single most pressing issue for them right now and I can see why. Looking at a dark screen for the whole stream is not attractive.
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It is also an absolute nightmare trying to find the qnh because you have to find historical metar, but this is also impossible because another bug of MSFS 2024 is that the sim time always displays current utc in the aircraft irrespective of what time you set in the sim.
It is like this sim has never been tested at all. Mix with the horrible blurry ground textures compared to 2020 and it is just a joke.
100% support this. This needs to be changed immediately.
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This feedback has my support. I found out the hard way when I had an unexpected 15 knot tailwind at takeoff. This needs to be addressed ASAP, as this behavior with historical weather data is different than MSFS2020.
Please give us the option to use historical data. Otherwise, many of us will be stuck flying at night.
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Which is made even worse by having all of the issues with rendering at night which makes 2024 look far worse at night than 2020âŠ
Try this workaround: select a day FAR FROM THE 24 HOURS. You can go in the future (tomorrow) or far in the past (before yesterday). With friends we did some test, and it works. Weather will be the real-time weather.
Many people have also done this and it just gives the weather at whatever UTC time it is in the 24 hour period for which it has data. For example, going 1 hour ahead would be the same as going 23 hours back.
Iâve tried but it doesnât work. I moved 2 days forward, changed the time and left the âlive weatherâ. Then I watched the METAR and it showed the historical weather which corresponded the UTC time I choose but of the day back.
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Yeah it doesnât work. It always just gives the weather at whatever UTC is in the last 24 hours.
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Voted!
The historical weather is great for those flying outside of multiplayer or Vatsim. And those who donât use simbrief.
It is a royal pain in the â â â for anyone who uses third-party add-ons for flight planning, as OP said.
There should be an option to use live weather at non-live times for those who want/need it.
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Has anyone try to avoid historical weather using active sky ?
Thanks
It works, but is off topic here.
Support!
Please make historical weather optional!
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It says âfeedback-loggedâ so I guess they are working on it.
Pretty sure itâll be fixed soon based on the change from it being a Wishlist item to a bug now.
Unfortunately nothing regarding this in todayâs changelog.
So in the Q&A today, Martial said they did not plan the time being able to be changed without weather.
Iâm in loss for words.
And since they are just looking into it, it wonât be fixed in next weekâs update, so next opportunity according to Jörgs timeline is a Sim Update in Q1 2025.
So might be 2-3 months of flying in darkness in the evening if you need to have live weather.
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Absolute joke.
I created a topic about this issue even before the sim was released highlighting the issues that would arise with this particular feature.
Completely ignored.
Then created a topic with hundreds of votes highlighting the issues and still seem to know little about it.
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This needs fixing IMMEDIATELY.
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I didnât watch it. But seriously ? He said that ?
What do these people need to wake up ?
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Honestly this is amazing. Itâs like whoever designed this has no idea how games like this are played.
For anyone flying on VATSIM or just using any flight planning addon being able to change the visual time of day keeping the current live weather is so fundamental and obvious that itâs beyond words how this could not have been thought about.
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