I’m having an issue with live weather. As you can see MSFS says no metar available at NZHK. But metar is very much available and it’s currently:
“METAR NZCH 070330Z AUTO 10007KT 060V180 9999 BKN033/// 18/11 Q1018 NOSIG”
Anyone know how to fix this? Thanks!
Not every airport has met available in the sim. Has it been available there before?
Without drudging up the debate about weather. If you’re getting no METAR and still having weather, know it’s 100% Meteoblue and count your lucky stars!
As stated by @ccrbc you should fact check whether that station has any weather services before hand.
Using a simple program / website like e6bx you can check.
And see that it does not.
As far as I know at 74 NM you might be too distant from the airport to get this data.It happens to me all the times when I am far away but when you get closer you’ll get it.
I’ve seen available as far out as sub 100NM. Even on long cross country flights it’s sometimes difficult to tell the difference between just MB or METAR depiction. Since METARS rarely report above FL250 I would assume any depictions above those altitudes are METAR influenced.
This doesn’t have anything to do with distance, etc…
It has everything to do with NZHK not having weather services (in the real world).
This can be verified by using online weather sources such as E6BX (as I showed above), FlightAware, Etc…
Well,if there are no irl data from NZHK it’s quite hard to have it on the sim.
BTW, I generally do short IFR flight Low altitudes of about 1 hr and I have noticed that landing airport METAR never shows up on departure but I can get it only when getting closer to the arrivals.Don’t recall if there is a standard mileage .Most of the time you can choose Metar of nearby airports from a drop-down menu. On a post,time ago,someone explained that this make sense because from departure to arrival the weather can change so it must be given just in time before landing.So,time/distance matters.
