Not to dash your hopes, but I don’t think we’ll hear anything till 3rd September when the dev update will coincide with the patch release announced the week before. maybe they’ll surprise us by including some other fixes other than the ones mentioned.
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You bet. And i don’t care if You like it.
It is not primarIly a US issue. It is an issue affecting the majority of the globe, with Europe being the minority exception.
I’m sorry and wish to be respectful, but I’m rather tired of seeing comments peddling this “fiction” that the issue is unique to the Americas. I can assure American simmers that if they expand their bubble of operations a little bit, they’ll very quickly realise that they are not the only ones affected.
A similar bubble seems to apply to European simmers, many of whom seem to believe that the issue is non-existent because they happen to have accurate winds on their flight from London to Paris.
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This is true, I think the exception seems to be that Europe works, whereas most/all other places do not work. I’ve personally only flown in North America and Europe. I plan on flying in the Storm headed for Japan tomorrow to see how things are faring in Asia myself
If you have read the above, there is no conspiracy theory on geo being only the US. It’s not we know
There are countless comments being made across various forums that this is a “US” issue.
I’m not claiming the existence of a conspiracy, but rather one of fairly widespread ignorance on the breadth of the issue.
Yes, I get that. Hence I linked you to this thread which has by now more clearly established it’s not just the US.
It’s seems easy to prove in the US as it’s very noticable across all major places people fly but it’s also been shown to work further south. Stands to reason this isnt just on that side of the globe either.
Well, everyone rushed in and bought it. They moved the number of units they wanted to.
What business sense does it make to make the weather and flight models as advertised and fix the malfunctioning systems like autopilots?
Let’s not pretend like we don’t know how this will go. We’ve already validated their offering with our wallets. There’s no reason for them to spend money chasing it.
The team has been reallocated to post launch activities. Some of those I’m sure are product support and bug fixes, but they are generating new DLC and working on new features probably much more than going back and tweaking what’s released. There’s been a pattern of things staying this way.
I just had a little flight through a typhoon that’s currently active to the east of Taiwan. Surface winds above 80knots on its north eastern quadrant, according to WindyTv. Sure enough, winds were 225/3.
In my home country of Australia I haven’t managed to find a single location where live winds were accurately implemented, either.
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I was just surfing the Meteoblue website and if you want to see where you will actually get Winds Aloft, Here’s the URL
I don’t know if the Zoom level will work via the link but if you zoom out enough, they have a line of where they have their region specific data (assuming this is their own model data) vs. the global data…
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Entire Japan is a calm 225/03 oasis ever since (not allowed to say, but a long time ago, ahem) For Asia, winds seem to be working in Indonesia / Philippines but nowhere else (in Asia)
Edit - Have raised zendesk ticket for this , a long time ago.
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I don’t want to disagree, but for me, at least, the weather in Europe doesn’t work 100 % either. Winds are “okay-ish” most of the time, but pressure and temperature are not within the margins I’d expect them to be, and that’s happening quite often.
In the end we need something reliable around the globe. Winds, temperature, cloud coverage, dew point and pressure have to be there within the margins of their (forecast) model, otherwise proper flight planning and online flying won’t make sense.
Regarding cloud coverage, I think it’s already quite bad that they can’t simulate fog layers, hopefully this will be addressed in the future as well.
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Just tried to reproduce the bug at YSSY. IRL metars said wind was 19 knots gusting to 35 from Southeast. When I listened to the ATIS at the airport, it somewhat matched the live, real world metars. But it had absolutely no effect on the aircraft, and g1000’s wind pfd screen showed 3 knots. 
The wind was 3 knots when I was on the ground doing nothing, or taxing, or taking off and climbing to 10,000 feet. No matter what altitude, it always stayed at 3 knots.
I’ll say it again. It has been acknowledged. Maybe not in the specific way you seem to be demanding for no other reason that that’s what suits you, but it has been acknowledged. If everyone who is trying to find out more about the bug can raise ZenDesk tickets with their information, that will help the devs much more than posting it on here. Can we close this thread please?
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It is just amazing intro of this Flightsim.
It is lbs instead of kg. LBS is usally mostly common in American airliners.
The wind is nearly 230/03 every day and nearly all over the world.
I live in scandinavian.Sometimes when I use East Europe server it is actual weather.
But mostly I fly in NewZeeland, my hub is in Wellington, and the polynesian island and the wind is always 230/03.
Upon all strange behavior in this sim the studio is Asobo, located in France.
What have all the betatester done???
Flightsimmer for 22 years.
Hope it will be better, at least the scenery is wonderful.
Regards
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You forgot that the main international hub of New Zealand NZAA is not there.
As has been mentioned before, the alpha/beta tester goal was to test server load and capacity. Developing/testing features was not our main goal. Bug reporting was handled/requested the same way it is now. I just went back and looked and bug reporting was the least important of the four stated goals of the alpha process.
With that info, honestly sounds like they rushed it or they’re understaffed. Either way we are in it for the long haul and anyone still not in should probably wait a bit.
I’m more inclined to get on board with microsoft decided it was being released on the 18th than asobo said “eh good enough”
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Unfortunate that this title with such ambition gets this treatment. Hoping for a new day and approach tomorrow.