Live Wind at Ground (Airport) Level is Too Calm

Although winds aloft seem to have been fixed with the latest patch, winds at ground & airport level appear way too calm based on current conditions. I just landed at KMIA using Live Weather. At 1,000 ft and higher I was getting correct NE winds of around 20 knots. Now here on the runway and parked at the airport I’m only getting 6 knots, when irl winds are around 15 knots and gusty. I’ve seen this at many other locations after Live Weather was supposedly “fixed.”

Has anyone else noticed this? Is this a known issue?

Thanks

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I’ve also noticed the wind has no effect on the aircraft. 22 knot crosswind and no crabbing needed.

On short final with winds 30G45! Live Weather. Not enough rudder authority to point the nose down the runway. Crosswinds are certainly there for me.

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You’re still a decent height over the runway though, and that plane should be doing much worse in a 45 kt crosswind. Winds are too light on the surface for sure. Was at an airport reporting 15 kts and on the ground I was reading 3 kts. Should’ve gotten maybe 10-11 kts on the ground (because wind stations are 10 meters above the ground - at ground level, it should be around 70% of the reported winds).

Haven’t had any issues with crabbing… even in a 10 kt crosswind I’ve had to crab significantly with the airliners.

Winds weren’t a direct crosswind, about 45 degrees off. So 20-30 kts of crosswind. It stayed the same as I descended to attempt landing. Couldn’t get it down, so landed in the grass directly into the wind with zero groundspeed! I certainly wouldn’t be flying for real in those conditions, but I wanted to find maximum crosswind at the surface.

Check out the wind chart at windy.com. Find the windiest airfield, and go there with Live Weather. https://www.fs-flightcontrol.com/en/ makes it easy to hop to just about any airfield in the world instantly.

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Ground winds are definitely working for me. Just had a turbulent crosswind take off in 12 knots winds.

This is supposedly fixed in the patch!

Can someone confirm?

Working on it

Test #1 at KSTL - Seems to be fixed. Winds were reporting 10 kts, and I’m on the runway showing 8 kts (which is the expected reduction 10 meters below the reporting station). Even went to 9 kts during the roll.

Unrelated, but wanted to say that the A320 took off beautifully this time. They fixed the weird pitch issues on the ground.

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Good news. Thanks. I will test out soon.