Ah, sorry if it came across wrong. Yet to set my wireshark and fiddler upon msfs. Can I be the naive cheerleader and say thank you all for the genuine technical input without being flamed by everyone else?
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@s3p1r0t4 ooo good question, I can check. Back in a few minutes! lol
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A flight sim forum should be respite from delusional conspiracy theories. Cmon guys. GD.
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@TropicoE you didnāt come across wrong at all 
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You can never be too careful when you ask someone something hereā¦
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No, anything you say in the interwebs is interpreted as a personal attack anytime anywhere 
Esp when the tension around here is already pretty tight I get it 
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You know, this might sound completely unrelated, but I canāt help to think how easy it would be to get this wrong just based on where a server is deployed ā¦
Is it possible that all broken regions somehow use either , instead of . Or Ā° in different Unicode variants?
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The transition from the US to Europe was noticeable. As I flew from Quebec, to Greenland, then Iceland, there was a bit where the aircraft was almost blown on its side as my 3kt wind turned into a 51kt crosswind!
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Looks like its using 1 server, I switched from East to West and didnāt change the weather production server. I donāt see anything that indicates this would change either as there is no region or anything passed to get the data. I will say it does come from the playfabapi.com servers so this very well could be country specific but the URL provided by the server doesnāt give a specific region for the WX server and is just a standard URL. weather.prod.kittyhawk which also seems to be the codename for FS2020 
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I usually feel better after Iāve broken wind.
Flying over Southern USA this evening, wind is not as stated - itās about 080 at ā¦ yes ā¦ 3kts!
Wish that was an easy way to fix, already have that feature off and still not working.
Oddā¦ weather.prod.kittyhawk is a SOA record with no matching A records. U sure this url is used or did I misunderstand and itās actually playfabapi.com?
If you are using fiddler do u have the IP of the weather api query made by msfs?
I didnāt give the full URL 
, it is: weather.prod.kittyhawk.msgamestudios.com
Edit: You canāt actually monitor the kittyhawk server traffic in fiddler, most likely FS2020 uses certificate pinning to prevent snooping, but Iāve been able to run a local server and see what URLs the game is trying to reach for these APIās by simply pointing the domain to my local machine.
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Alright. Thatās the same azure service worldwide residing in westus2 
so not an issue with different servers serving the data. Ripā¦ also westus2 is the worst choice but thatās neither here nor there.
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Guys, donāt give up. I have a blush face bet going on!
I too do not like us west servers but mine comes from AWS, but good to know that its universal across brands.
I personally donāt mind as itās really close to me, but itās pretty bad for most folks worldwide as I assume most players are either Europe or US. Good for folks in APACā¦ No idea why they wouldnāt have the data globally available tho. Takes a little glitch in a single site and msfs has no weather worldwide (lot of conjecture as there are other ways to be resilient without DNS balancing) but still ā¦ Weird.
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Yeah I thought they would at least balance it by region, us east, us west, UK, APAC etc. but what makes it even worse is this:
1 auth server
1 DRM server
1 weather server
CDN for weather files (the Globe map)
CDN for METARs
While they are load balanced (no doubt about it) that is several 1 point failures for the whole game to be down.
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Donāt call me Mr. Scorpion, Itās Mr. Scorpio. But donāt call me that either