Anyway, basically it doesn’t matter whether the weather is right or not. It is a simulation. I can hardly imagine someone sitting in a real plane and playing FS2020 at the same time to compare.
Usually you go by car to the airport, check and refuel the plane, get in and fly away. In the meantime the weather has changed. A simulation is only about simulating certain conditions for practice and learning.
Flight planning is elementary. Before every flight! - that’s not necessary to mention. I was talking about you starting from home and that the weather has changed in the meantime. Are you slow on the uptake?
i never said anything like that. you have it backwards.
i use real world tools to plan flight sim flights.
this is the direction simming has been going for 40 years. we use real charts. we have real weather. the planes get more realistic every year. etc. etc.
As far as correct, except for the weather. I can’t remember that during a real flight the weather changed from sunshine or vice versa from one second to the other. What about physics and aerodynamics? It remains a simulation. Keep dreaming…
The weather is definitely broken. I don’t blame him for using P3d or Xplane because the weather works in those sims. It’s not perfect, and it’s not as pretty as MSFS, but you can plan your flights according to the weather. You can’t plan your flights in MSFS based on the weather because there is no way to know what the conditions will be at your destination when you arrive. There are no flight planning tools that will tell you what the simulator weather will be. We only have real world flight planning tools to use. In MSFS, when you do arrive at your destination, you can’t even count on the ATIS, because that information is also incorrect (meaning that it doesn’t match real world weather, nor does it match the simulator weather). I’ve opened various Zendesk tickets on all of these items.
It’s been a few months since I’ve flown in X-Plane, but what I remember was accurate weather based on METAR that would change before your very eyes, with no smooth transition. So you could be approaching an airport, that 10 miles out looks clear, then as you get closer clouds appear. It’s accurate, but it appears out of nowhere.
So what you would need, as you travel between two weather stations, or transition between two METAR’s, would be some smooth transition between the two reports. Which starts to sound dangerously like a weather predication, at that point i.e. educated guesswork.
Yes, exactly… but when you do your flight planning you are planning based on real world predictions called TAFs (Terminal Aerodrome Forecasts). If the real world weather doesn’t at least somewhat match in the sim, then you can’t use the TAFs either because they don’t apply.
You bring up a good point about predictions. Is the sim just showing us predictions, or is it trying to show us real world METARs (as they state they use in their posting) and is it failing at that? Do they know it’s failing and they’re just ignoring it, or do they think that it works because it works in some locations but not in others. These are all questions I’d like to know.
I’m not sure anyone outside the developers respective companies knows for sure. My guess would be that they take the METARs that we can see they have via their website, and build a model from that to display in the sim. How they go about doing this is anyone’s guess.
Immensely more sophisticated than the “interpolated METAR” approach we have been used to in flight simulator weather products, so it has enormous potential. Still some work left to in MSFS to realize the potential from the Meteoblue models.
I was having the issue where no matter what flight weather conditions I chose either before or during a flight, the weather was always clear.
I did the following and after that it worked just fine, all weather worked.
Right clicked on MSFS icon in Windows 10 Start
Went to → More → App settings
In Settings Window chose “Repair”, Enter. (It was the least invasive choice)
…It ran for a minute then a Check Mark appeared.
That’s it, weather was back the next time I ran the sim.
Maybe this could work for someone with same issue.