Yup. (SU8b2) Sherburn to Manchester in the Kodiak quickly became Sherburn to Leeds after a few full speed stalls and then manual approach as ILS failed. Was actually quite exciting, I had no idea there was a real world storm going on.
(I don’t live in UK any more but they were my local airports).
Flew in also at the peak time. Was too much of a piece of cake to be realistic, nothing in the way of gusts.
There doesn’t seem to be any gusts in the sim. Flying into Heathrow during the peak of the storm and I had a steady 50mph+ headwind with no variation. Comfortable landing if you use an airliner.
Had a go in the Top Rudder 
and took off backwards…
Yeah thats what I’ve found too. Live weather is pretty much just visual only.
Its been a long time since gusts at ground level worked (at least with live weather) - not sure when it broke but hasn’t been fixed. I am pretty sure its on the radar to be addressed (Maybe in SU8) but I dont have that for sure in front of me right now…
I just wonder, how hard is it to fix something that is actually so basic and important?
To be fair I guess you’re not normally going to notice it unless there is a weather event you are aware of. Probably why its down the priority list somewhere.
Sure would be nice to have though ofc.
Would’ve been great to relive this in MSFS with Historic Weather, shame it’s not a feature.
So you can take off and fly backwards in a Cub easily then?
There was a story printed in a flying magazine 20 years ago about a guy taking his girlfriend back home somewhere in NY. Flying West to East taking her home with a tailwind. Then trying to fly back into the headwind at altitude heading back home. He was being blown out to sea at altitude. He reduced altitude and was able to make headway slowly.
I currently have no live weather, just 225/03 knots and clear skies.
Looking out of the window now, I would be quite happy to do a swap
Change your server location to a region that is still in bed. That usually works☺️
I can’t see that ever being A Thing, especially as you can make your own weather anyway.
Such a shame to hear the wind gusts in live weather are not working any better in SU 8 beta…it would make landing in storms like last week much more interesting…
Are you at least getting a nice FPS value?
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