One of the biggest draws to the new sim was weather.
It doesn’t seem to be working properly yet, and we cannot set visibility, but there’s already a replacement.
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Yep, that is one of the biggest reasons that the pitch-forks and torches are out.
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That was just a coincidence.
If you create an account with them on their sales website check for a 30% off code. There was one in my account after I created it. Found it after a tip off from a Facebook page. That brought the price down to just over £12 so I figured for that price I’ll just grab it, even if I just used it for the dynamic presets for now until they hopefully bring out better features with updates.
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I like the new weather system because it’s dynamic, no sudden mid flight changes. I don’t care that the weather is less correct, I’m inside the house and if i close the curtains i wouldn’t know anyway.
Does this addon remove the dynamic weather? Different weather popping in is realism breaking for me.
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This is a disadvantage of METAR weather when it comes to clouds. First of all, most automated weather observations systems only detect clouds that are directly overhead. When you see a METAR report with multiple cloud layers, that report usually came from a human observer.
Few reporting stations will give cloud layers any higher than 12,000 feet. In the US, there are many airports that will report CLR as long as there are no clouds below 6000 feet.
This is because even if there is a solid overcast at 6100 feet, as a practical matter, that would be VFR conditions, and of no real concern to pilots planning to land or take off from that airport.
Reporting the exact heights of cloud layers only becomes important for flight-planning purposes when the layers are low enough to make the airport weather conditions marginal VFR, or IFR.
For similar reasons, METAR reports will not include a specific visibility reading if the visibility is greater than 6 miles (in the US) or 9.99 kilometers (in metric countries).
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You should alert that without detailed instructions there is no way to use your mod. Maybe you know how to copy your modified files to a windows app folder that it’s protected by system, but most of us don’t. In your blog you just forget that is not just taking ownoer of a folder and giving administrators full access, simply I can’t find a way. It’s a pitty. Otherwise thanks, but please let know to people that they won’t be able to install your mod without this knowledges. I couldn’t and for now I’m done.
Cheers
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I have a Steam copy, where it is trivial to make such changes. It looks like an MS Store version may need some additional considerations.
thanks REX employee. 
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Agreed. I myself won’t buy ANY addon for at least a few months or so. Preferably NEVER. But I would NEVER spend money on addons that address things Asobo will address itself in the (near) future. Patience is a virtue here.
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You seem rather pleased for some reason, so a question.
You start at an airport, with the weather set perfectly to an accurate METAR, with whichever method you chose.
As you fly around, the weather around you will change. Which method would you like to see used to show the weather changing as you fly from region to region? How would you like to see the weather change from METAR to METAR? Note that this would likely be from a different weather station, not the same one.
Just saw a review and indeed this removes the whole dynamic weather system and goes back to injecting local METARs. So the whole model based weather system is gone. So you fly in clear skies and a second later you’re in a thunder storm just like in the old sims.
If i just want accurate METARs why not generate them from the dynamic system instead of the other way around? Why does the weather have to reflect real life on the minute if that means no smooth transitions? I don’t know what the weather is in Kuala Lumpur so i wouldn’t know if it’s correct right?
This seems like a major downgrade to me. A super advanced system they worked very hard on to give us dynamic weather for the first time. And now simple METAR injection. The default weather is very much under appreciated. If you look how it works under the hood it’s really amazing, you never see weather popping in instantly.
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I’m in two minds about the whole METAR shifting/changing clouds between airfields.
I flew a flight through Melbourne the other day, the reported winds were 230/19 knots per the METAR, but the PFD indicated winds on short final and landing were 270/7 knots, a pretty significant difference. The QNH was also out by 6-7HPA, which is a major difference. The cloud was reported to be BKN at about 4000, however there was no cloud over the field, only some in the distance to the south east. This was all using the inbuilt live weather.
For VFR, I’d rather have consitent cloud so I can actually see and subsequently avoid clouds without them shifting or changing rapidly.
For IFR, I’d rather have correct conditions according to the METAR, especially if I’m flying online.
In an ideal world we can have a simulator that depicts an area model correctly with correct data from METARs included as well.
Also, on the topic of YWSL, it should use YMES which is close by. However I know that REX and Activesky from a while back had very limited coverage in Australia. Not sure what their data source is but it was quite limited. A workaround in Activesky was to use VATSIM METARs, which they had managed to source the data from for a lot more airfields.
You can replace the the owner on subcontainers and objects of the WindowsApps Folder. BUT, it’s a high risk if the user don’t understand what he is doing.
But do you really need to? One solution could be to start the Command Line with admin privileged and copy the files from within it.
can not be done… I have tried that and everything else, including changing ownership of WindowsApp folder… but when we try to copy or change anything on the folder it is still denied…
i don’t see so much difference, honestly the weather system is one of the best things in this game so far
Sorry about that. I will post an update when I find a solution.
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is only the looks that is great, but is not good when the local metar says 19 degrees C and QNH of 1026 and you have with live weather on MSFS temperature of 33 deg C and a QNH of 1013… How can you do any performance calculations with that huge discrepancy???
i agree with you but i hope they fix.
We have tons of things to fix, so we have to wait for one more thing is the same.
I don’t want lower fps to get similar effects