Please improve cloud turbulence, icing and weather in general

Whats even more disappointing is MSFS 2020 came with icing conditions on release day one! What happened Asobo? You guys really dropped the ball on 24 in so many ways. Its almost like you guys took 10 steps backwards from 2020.

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We have brought up this issue so many times, I personally have brought it up twice for the Live Developers Updates and Seb has actually responded by saying that turbulence is there but he has realized the cloud density is not there to produce the significant amount of turbulence in MSFS 2020! He said it will be fixed (that’s back in Feb. 2024) and it’s two weeks worth of effort. It never got fixed and guess what, it’s not fixed in MSFS 2024 despite all the promises.

Please bring this issue up as many time as you can by submitting this question every time to live developer’s update. Weather should be pretty much the most important aspect a flight simulator. Hope they address this issue sooner than later.

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Didn’t seb say in his development stream that he’s recorded updrafts of up to 10,000fpm? The cloud turbulence is a joke. I appreciate it’s a lot of physics involved but please deliver on what was promised. Flying a light twin through a CB is like a hot knife through butter. Smooth.
As an airline pilot, I’ve been caught out in the monsoon weather. It was NOT fun. Physically feeling the intensity of an updraught the suddenly hit by a down draught was immense. I just wish that day we had MSFS 20/24 CBs.
Flying through a red return in msfs is do able in a 152!!!

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This needs more attention, lots of promises but weather is a copy paste of 2020 with some very light enhancements:

  • Turbulence: no change :x:
  • Wind random changes: no change :x:
  • Live weather/metar blending: no change :x:
  • Windshield effects: no change :x:
  • Dry ground instantly as rain stops: no change :x:
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Keep voting guys. We are already on the list but let’s get more votes in order to be heard

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I agree; having this would be incredible and take the sim to the next level—my number one “wish list” item. Keep the votes coming! The weather engine in 2024 creates some stunning visuals. Let us use those incredible visuals to get a close-to-realistic experience when navigating different weather conditions.

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I do think turbulence has improved in 2024.
I can now leave it realistic for airliners and GA.

Take the Fenix: in 2020 you had to set turbulence to med or even low. At realistic the AC would toss around and AP disconnect immediately. Fenix measured the G-forces to 3Gs two times a second
or something like that.
In 2024 I have yet to have an AP disconnect, and the AC is tossed less around.
Especially the turbulence caused by the ultra-frequent-micro-gusts have been improved/less pronounced now. Although it still can be overdone in heavy airliners sometimes, imho.

I did have some nice in-cloud turbulence in the Fenix - stratus layer. But not sure if that was RealTurb (still tweaking settings there).

What 2024 (and 2020) really lack is severe turbulence in TCU, CBs. Took the C172 on storm chasing (live WX). No turbulence in storms/CBs. No violent up-/diwndrafts
give us a reason to avoid bad WX.

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It’s really amazing that this sim grows in so many directions, really most are good and well evolved, yet some fundamental realism aspects left so behind that it really hurts for such a long time now.
Like getting a really talented orchestra playing yet leaving one violin badly broken and out of tune, that simply can’t be ignored


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I was sitting on the apron with the BE60 Duke in Thunder Bay, Canada, and the aircraft was icing up despite clear conditions, no visible moisture or precipitation at -14C with a dew point of -25C. The only way to remove the absurd amount of ice was using developer mode. There is no way an aircraft would collect ice with 10+ visibility, no moisture or precipitation while sitting on a ramp in daylight.

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A2A has its own turbulence implementation in the Acusim engine.

I agree. This is a huge part of flying and it’s not realistic at all without these supercell clouds.

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