Yeah same here very hard to control on the ground with a fairly low wind speed.
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Yes. Me too. Although it might be a problem of surface friction rather than wind speed. Definitely needs some Asobo attention. I’ve had planes slide sideways on the runway as if on black ice. In < 5kt crosswinds!
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Thank you for giving me the chance to vote: I don’t like it; turbulence should be reduced.
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There’s a wishlist topic for a runway friction model!
I found this 
Helped me. Now it feels good in crosswind.
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Most pilots and passengers don’t like turbulence. That doesn’t make it less real. Don’t reduce, refine.
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I’m going to try that!
For all this talk of unrealistic tail waggling I thought I would see what XP12 does in comparison. I know quite well what it looks like in MSFS, when viewed from an external camera, but thought it would be interesting to compare the two.
The weather preset I used was the default convective weather. To be fair I don’t see a great deal of difference between the two, and I think the reason for this is you have an external camera that is focused on a fixed point, the centre of the aircraft.
If the plane is blown to the left, right, up or down you won’t see this as the camera moves with it. Like those chest mounted action cameras you see on cyclists, or free runners. But if the plane changes heading, then you will see that immediately as the tail moving about. I don’t think there is any way around that, without having some fuzzy logic on the camera where it tracks the plane to a degree but will allow the plane to get away from it briefly, then re-centre.
Anyway, enjoy!
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You can use Littlenavmap or PlanG flight planners. They include a pointer in map with instant wind direction/speed. That’s similar and easy.
Cheers
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Yes i use those too 
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I wish to nominate this quote for comment of the year. 
This describes the meteoblue weather we had, before the vocal minority of people on the forums bullied the devs into including METAR information in weather depiction. We have officially come full circle. 
Why is it smoking? Do you have failures set, and have an engine oil leak?
Can they not just make it an option in the difficulty settings for those who prefer how it was? Then everyone wins.
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But if they included option to disable that METAR thing we all would have been happy We had option pre su7 to use METAR addons but now we are forced to use it. Well, that is of topic though.
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They already do in the form of weather presets. But I guess you mean you want to enjoy the benefits of live weather, without having the downsides of live weather.
On a different not, regarding that video I have shown above, something that I have never seen in MSFS, is the wind affecting the control surfaces. In that video you can clearly see the rudder being thrown about. You can see this is the VC as well, as you see the rudder pedals moving about.
I’m pretty sure MSFS doesn’t simulate that. I bet the Brunner force feedback rudder pedals leave you aching in weather like that.
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If we can’t have options in live-weather. Then why not add live-weather as a cloud preset only in custom-weather.
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Use the weather presets then.
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I agree. If you want to know EXACTLY what the weather is along your route, and at your destination, then use a static pre-set. If you want a taste of the real world as a simmer, then use live weather, and prepare a plan B, plan C, and plan D, because the weather never exactly matches the observations, and forecasts.
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Agree, to me we should handle live-weather in MSFS as we do IRL.
If we feel it’s too dangerous to fly and land safe, find an alternate airport that feels more safe.
The real weather is dynamic and can’t be changed because it’s not matching METARS. We need to adapt if it’s not matching or make our own observations.
But i think it would be good with options more to make it easier to move forward with development of this sim and at the same time keep the all the users happy.
As it is now. They release something new. Instantly community starts to complain. They remove/limit the new feature. The other group starts complaining and that is how it will continue for 10 years without options in live-weather. Because most of the users want to use live-weather even if they have custom-weather as an option.
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I would definitely prefer the ability to turn this off/down. Not something I want to deal with if I’m just checking out the scenery, which is 99% of my activity in the sim.