I recently completed a flight in a small aircraft using Live Weather. The departure and arrival airports were reporting VFR with some clouds. I decided to go figuring if the clouds got too much, I could easily return.
The weather deteriorated quickly with lowering ceilings, heavy rain, lighting and thunder, and turbulence. I started to turn around but the bad weather was behind me. There were no airports nearby where I could land and wait out the storm. I pressed on flying under the lowering ceiling and very poor visibility. I kept checking the Sectional chart for terrain altitudes. I was hoping not to find any granite. I cannot describe how happy I was to find the airport and land.
The rain may not have been perfect. The clouds may have lacked definition. Lightening and thunder may have been too intense. The weather may not have matched Live Weather. ATC probably gave me the wrong runway. I was too busy flying the airplane to notice. I was so immersed to notice anything wrong with the simulation.
When my flight finished, I felt like I experienced, actually survived an intense storm. Sometimes we become so focused on simulator shortcomings that we miss the big picture of what the simulator is delivering. It isn’t perfect, fixes are needed. I will continue to enjoy flying the simulator with all its flaws and problems.
Yes it was made by a modder not by xplane it only works on the zibo mod, and it works great, xplane can’t do it and it will never come in msfs, so if you want to see it for yourself get xplane 11 and the zibo mod and rain effects. i do landing in heavy rain with it just to get the real feel of flying in weather.
Wow this rain effect in the video looks absolutely impressive! Super impressive! And I thought the overall graphics quality of the Flight SImulator 2020 cannot be topped - but this rain effect is just wow.
Rain has such a special mood inside the warm cozy and dry cockpit, and wow yes the Flight Simulator would truly be enhanced with such a superb heavy rain or thunderstorm water effect on the windshields.
Don’t fly older planes then, they get quite cold and very wet through the many leaks in rain
Nothing cozy and romantic about flying in rain, quite the opposite actually (in any type of aircraft). Add a thunderstorm like you say, and your workload and apprehension makes it quite unpleasant
Rain effects right now are very basic. Droplets don’t actually interact with the windshield. If you stare at one spot anywhere on the windshield you will see the same droplet fading in and out. It would be nice if they introduced some real physics to the rain, however I imagine that would be a big performance hit, I suppose the illusion they’ve created is effective enough.
Yeah I noticed that. That’s why I made this thread so hopefully we can get something a little more realistic on those effects. But let’s all be patient and see what comes in the next few months.
There is several interaction physic with the wind speed, direction, props vs turbine in front or side engine position, stop-start engine and in the air. What is missing on MSFS is wiper cleaning interaction, and droplet goes down at taxi speed on ground with Boeing engine.
The topic video, is like someone trowing as barrel of water in windshield, and the direction of the rain is not accurate while flying.
Several default aircraft have the rain effects going sideways unfortunately too. I tried to fix them on some models (DR400 and C208) but rotating the UV map didn’t seem to help a thing.
The left rear window on the DR400 (rain goes up the window in flight) and the right copilot window on the Caravan are two that I’ve noticed so far.
