basic weather / cloud / temperature / surface based thermals, up & downdrafts are now integrated (Simupdate 9), they gonna get improved in future updates, a big CFD simulation (20km around the aircraft) is planned/ currently in research thermals should get longer lasting updrafts which are sur…

I think it was a tadd over the top at higher altitudes so they dialled it back. Turbulence dissipates at higher altitudes so you would not expect it to be present say crossing a group of trees 10000 feet in the same way you would at 1000 feet.

Forget not that live weather is piped so they can still mess it up make improvements going forward. :wink:

Anybody here participating in the current beta? How does the changed turbulence and drafts feel?

Really. They need to just add an adjustment slider for this. Then everyone is happy.

[image] HomieFFM: Per feedback, turbulence & drafts have been reduced by 90% at 0kts wind speed and 50% at 1kts wind speed (no change above 3kts wind speed). Turbulence and drafts have also been reduced by 50% at high altitudes It’s not clear whether this affects what Asobo thinks are thermal…

At the moment (SU9), the following parameters affect the value of thermal: [Vertical speed of thermal]

did you create this on your own expirences or is this something official?

These are the results of my study of the simvar of the AMBIENT WIND Y using the Simvars.exe program, which is included in the MSFS SDK kit.

The middle statement on that chart appears to be wrong unless the extra up and downdrafts are due solely to increased surface winds caused by more heat. E.g. glide over Madrid realtime on a sunny midday and then morning or evening and you will notice a huge difference.

The diagram given above concerns exclusively cloud thermals. In the absence of clouds, thermals are formed over some surfaces. The dependence of their speed on the time of day is given below: [The dependence of the vertical speed of thermal] Negative vertical flows are up to -100 ft/min (-0.5 m…

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At the moment (SU9), the following parameters affect the value of thermal:

Multiplayer do you use it?