To be honest, I dont care about the Reno Air Race nor for some pseudo Military jets in a civil flight sim. (I fly DCS & Il2 for decades)
What catches my attention is this here, quote from the review:
“The one issue… I could find is that at times the transition between the areas covered by METAR and those that aren’t can be rather sudden, specifically when fog is involved. This is rather visible, which makes me think it’s either a bug or an oversight that hopefully will be fixed soon”
I dont want to sound too pessimistic, but if the new METAR based systen is already that bugged before the patch is even released, when we have a serious problem.
Because abrupt Weather changes are the last one I want to see in a METAR based weather system by Microsobo
Super excited for the PC6 now, especially if its going to have much more systems depth than most default aircraft.
Not so excited for the weather updates though. Using METAR data is fine, but I feel that the transitions that come with it may make the changes a step in the wrong direction. Hopefully a more accurate forecast model will resolve these issues.
I can see the worry about the weather, but it’s only two more days and the interviewer, who has had access to the update, said that he was impressed with the weather. Let’s not judge before release. To me, and yes I’m old, it sounds like the interviewer is impressed and the developer is not yet satisfied. That’s good news as it’s improving but not forgotten in its improved state.
I love Flight Sims, Reno air has no appeal to me whatsoever. However it will appeal to a lot of people. So look at the bigger picture, it will be bigger revenue. Hence more money Its about everyonone.
yes I read it too and had sweat on my forehead, please no abrupt changes - that was for me one of the biggest weak points with the other SIM’s and advantages of the MSFS ! Of course, if the weather is more accurate, it’s a huge advantage - I hope they catch the bug (but they will) !
Definitely am (I’m the reviewer). It’s not perfect, but it’s a big, big improvement over what we have now. Also, stress on “at times.”
Usually, I noticed it happen when the area covered by METAR has heavy fog and the predictive area isn’t. I’d be surprised if it can’t be smoothed out.
It’s worth mentioning that this has nothing to with what I’ve seen in add-ons that have big ugly transitions in the cloud layers and such. I’ve experienced it only with the fog (and only from within, not when you’re flying over it for instance), not with other elements of weather like clouds.
So where’s the “expense” of bug fixing? They obviously are. Incidentally, bug fixing and new features are handled by different teams with different competencies. So, again, there’s no “expense” (nor any gamification any more than the fact that all commercial computer flight simulators are “games”).
There’s one aspect of the weather system that I always found outright infuriating - the wind reports.
Winds reported on the world map, reported by ATIS (and subsequent active runways based on that particular wind report), and actual wind in the sim rarely ever matched each other. World map tells you wind is at 180, ATIS tells you it’s 270, while actual wind is from 90. AI planes are being landed and taken off on 09, but ATIS tells you RWY 27 is active, you’re landing with a tail wind while AI planes are landing and taking off from the other end of the runway you’re trying to land on.
What to expect when we all want that static METAR based injection instead of meteoblue? How should they implement it then? I would rather have one “meteoblue” that injects it all the time instead with smooth transisions between the weather as IRL. I think we are going to need to live with this improvement now. It’s like fsx again with METAR based togeather with meteoblue weather. I’m both happy to have lower visibility when it’s actually reported but i’m not a fan of those instant changes METAR based weather gives. They said they should blend them in some kind of way but METAR will always be static and reported at that station makes the weather same around that place with a radius decided by Asobo that sets how big radius those reports should be injected and set in the sim. Same with the wind. It will be set at the rate METAR says. IRL wind is not static at let’s say 10kts even if METAR says so. Now i don’t know how the wind will be implemented but i’m afraid it will be static at the METAR rate. IRL we need METAR reports and wind measures because the wind changes all the time.
"This isn’t just a functional change, as the new weather also looks even more stunning than it did before, with beautiful clouds, dense fog, and a ton of additional immersion.
The one issue (untranslated METAR gibberish aside) I could find is that at times the transition between the areas covered by METAR and those that aren’t can be rather sudden, specifically when fog is involved. This is rather visible, which makes me think it’s either a bug or an oversight that hopefully will be fixed soon. "
I have to give kudos to your positive attitude finding something slightly negative and making it sound much more negative than it actually is.
I can’t say if it has been fixed across the board, but I have definitely noticed consistency in my testing, but I haven’t tested the whole world.
For instance, right now I’m sitting at Osaka with RJOO 162200Z 31003KT 9999 FEW025 09/06 Q1023 RMK 1CU025 A3022
The wind indicator in the instruments indeed has 310 degrees at 3 KTs, and ATIS reports 318 at 5 (close enough, I guess) with departing and landing correctly on runways 32R and L. The windosocks are also consistent with it.
I hope that this is now consistent across the sim. It was really hit or miss at times in the past. Sometimes it was close, but more often than not, the wind reports were completely out to lunch. I can’t even count how many times I’ve landed or taken off with a cross or tail wind when there was a perfectly correct runway available that AI planes were actively using. To me, this is the one big blemish on the weather system currently. I do hope they fixed it finally.
from what I can see, now everything around the airport is based on the METAR reading.
Of course, there is still those cases with airports that don’t have 24/7 METAR (or no METAR at all), but to be honest with you, I haven’t thought of testing it.
