When I’m flying and experience a lurch and see the altimeter change, am I experiencing one of these infamous weather transitions?
Where I usually fly it’s generally completely blue skies and CAVOK, so you can’t see these things coming, but I’m trying to understand what this is.
It doesn’t seem like turbulence, but perhaps it is?
You probably just crossed over to another weather reporting station. I know if you fly from cleveland ohio to erie pa, there are 5 of them, and it seems that 2 dont report in there is some issue, so you’ll cross into the next one and all of a sudden the lake is flat, Ive even had it go from overcast to clear and then back to overcast with the next zone…When the alt changes like that make sure to press b on the kyboard to reset you altimeter so that it stays correct…
I suspect what you are seeing is this.
It does give a very abrupt change when it happens.
Does the time frame fit?
I’ve experienced that, for sure, but that isn’t the case for me during this flight, because the altimeter is not being reported as 29.92 when I get an update from ATC.
It’s a subtle lurch and slight altimeter change.
That 23:00-00:12 thing is weird. If you’re already underway, it doesn’t seem to happen, or if it does it doesn’t appear the same as when you load into a flight between those times.
Wow that’s different from me.
I get a 2-3 thousand foot almost instant change, along with an autopilot disconnect, and alarms going off all over the place!
Edit: That occurs on a return of the weather.
I do experience as you mentioned upon the start of it!
I’m super aware of the issue, because being in CA, that time (along with my life schedule) is prime time flying for me. I’m not sure why it behaves as it does.
It is super inconsistent for me. Yesterday, for instance, it was in full effect, but I’d loaded into a flight after 23:00.
Today, I was(am?) already underway when 23:00 passed. Maybe I did feel that, I’ve been flying plenty long enough, but it didn’t do the 29.92 thing. Plus it’s like Groundhog Day here most days — the exact same boring no clouds blue sky weather.
I’m in NS Canada, and it hits at 7:00 PM local time, which like you, is my prime flying time.
Nova Scotia? I love that place!
I thought you might be interested in this post regarding the issue.
Yeah I get the daily weather outage bug from 5pm to 6:12pm central time which is after work and prime flying time for me as well. I did pickup the new weather pre-sets and they are quite good, so I will use those during the outage going forward.
But I get the sudden lurch on occasion as well.
That post is describing, pretty much, exactly what I was thinking is happening.
Interesting.
We know Asobo has acknowledged the transitioning is an issue, hopefully they are working on a “smoothing” solution for it.
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