Just in case somebody wonders how it looks like in X-plane, not saying this looks realistic in any form. but having any effect in bad weather situations is better than non (msfs). There you have a reason to look at the weather API instead of flying straight through the storm with almost just visual effects.
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I tested very heavy rain with a custom Rain preset and the C172 G1000 seemed to suffer some severe drag upon takeoff. Still unsure what feature of the sim is actually causing that behavior.
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my guess would be just general down drafts, not linked to the rain, but to the clouds and/ or thermals.
here is a quote of the original ‘‘rain doesn’t have any effect’’ post:
It’s certainly the case that in my custom rain preset I moved all 3 cloud layers near ground level to make the rain as heavy as possible.
‘‘MSFS doesn’t provide any sim variable that would allow detecting flying in the rain (there is a variable that informs about flying in the cloud)’’
which means the clouds have an effect, but the rain itself is just purely visual with no physics effect at all.
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Of course!!!
Thank you for this topic!!!
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Well, having been in the business of making aircraft more complex for over 2 decades I can tell you that simply does not compute.
A real airline pilot is part of a two men team. Highly trained, highly educated. Rested, sober.
Now I have the utmost respect for our customers, but a single guy with a $70 simulator, a $60 aircraft and a lot of youtube videos is simply not the same.
As we increased the complexity of DLC we saw sales numbers drop. And cost of customer support rise. 9% of our Airbus customers tell us our autopilot does not work because they simply do not understand the autopilot has two modes. If we tell them it is explained in the manuals, they say 'it does not work as in a 737’. And demand their money back.
That is why less complex products sell way better than complex products these days. They sure do not get the attention and forum posts, but they sure bring in the money. Aerosoft is arguably one of the biggest publishers and I am 90% sure you do not know what our best-selling products are.
Many customers have bought a product they were not fully capable of using. And I do not blame them at all. As said, an airliner is flown by two people who both paid at least $150.000 to get trained. I always find it rather disrespectful towards pilots to claim our customers can their job.
Mathijs Kok
Aerosoft
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Of course, a study level airliner is nothing for casual gamers and wont sell to the mainstream masses, but to stay on topic, this is not comparable to the request of more realism in terms of dangerous weather physics.
You don’t need to be an $150.000 trained airline pilot to understand that really bad weather gonna shake your airplane around. The casual gamer will say ‘‘this is boring, uninstall’’ if nothing happens while he flies through a storm.
At the end this is just an wishlist thread, I thought more realism would be a nice goal.
If the majority of people really don’t want any realistic simulation, this topic won’t get any votes.
So let’s wait and see.
for now we are starting with double arrows up 
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But this is being a sim and not real life, people do it anyway. Only to find out that actually nothing bad happens.
This is why the real world effects need to be there, to teach people to NEVER fly into those kinds of clouds and why.
So if anyone is curious and does it despite all the warnings they get a hard lesson in reality and why you don’t do it.
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haha noooooooo! That thing looks cool but yeah I would would like stronger weather effects as well… as you are right, right now theres not much incentive to avoid weather
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You do realise don’t you that there really are aliens on the moon and that it really is made of blue cheese?
You know it makes sense 
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strong turbulence do exist and airlines fly through them, sometimes accidentally, sometimes on purpose 
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Hypoxemia & Oxygen system added since that’s gonna be relevant for realistic glider simulation, but also for almost every other high altitude airplane as well.
Could be visually simulated with the high g-force blackout.
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This sim is UTTERLY disappointing in terms of weather… No CB clouds, no convective turbulence… VERY unrealistic. This should be one of the MAIN issues to be implemented and should come out along with the weather radar in August! Otherwise what will be the point in implementing a weather radar???
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Maybe Asobo could dedicate one whole Sim Update to Weather only? Maybe this needs it’s own thread but I totally agree with this topic and think we need more realistic storms (and towering cumulus can be dangerous too!)
We need the cumulonimbus to extend from typical base of cloud (2-3k?) to at least 15,000 and up to even 50,000ft depending on strength of storm. And like the OP suggests, dangerous conditions to warrant a pilot to AVOID said storms (and even towering cumulus if in a light aircraft).
I wonder if Asobo could redo how towering cumulus and cumulonimbus clouds are “built” - sadly (now) BEFORE METAR they used to actually be pretty good but now METAR seems to have broken up all the clouds into a small fragmented mess of cumulus like PUFFS everywhere. The main thing we were missing before METAR was the DANGER.
Could Asobo build the towering cumulus and cumulonimbus clouds using real time lightning data? This assures a thunderstorm of some sort; and wow would it be cool to get real time lightning like we have real time traffic!! Real Time Lightning Map :: LightningMaps.org;
Edit also there IS already a thread dedicated to a sim update for weather only here: Can we have a weather Atmosphere and Environment update only please? - #3 by errorhasoccured
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Gusts are coming back with SU 10
Sim Update 10 Beta Release Notes [1.27.9.0]
Weather
- Added gusts to live weather: Added data pipeline between live weather (meteo blue & metar) and sim for gust data so that the sim features real world gusts in live weather
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Agree 1000000% !!! It’s a fundamental aspect that MUST be there in a flight simulator, while at present is totally missing!
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I was surprised at the snow storm in Nashville Tenn. In January of this year. Snowing and what looked like ice build up on the engines,tail,fuselage. I did take off and flew to Atlanta. Anti icing did help after a while and my take off speed was about 160. Don’t know how that would work for real but in normal conditions I could rotate at 130 and that was 50% fuel load.
Yes I would like to see lightning and hear some thunder when I know its really happening. The weather radar was also lit up Flying over central florida near Tampa where I live on the way to KMIA (Miami) A320 Neo jetblue.
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Hi,
At the moment the bad weather effects are in fact non-existing in FS… When entering what appear as big stormy clouds, no turbulence, no airplane shaking, no up/downdrafts occur. It’s exactly as if the sky was clear…
I would also like to know if thunderstorms are simulated and what their effects are, because, in 6 months that I have had FS, I haven’t seen any.
In real life, even when you get inside a small cumulus cloud, you experience some turbulence.
I think this is one of the main aspects that are still missing and they can’t be missing in a flight simulator… Further, if those effects are not implemented, the weather radar will be completely useless…
Please, this is a very important aspect!
Thank you.
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