Tip for Wind Speed and Direction

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If you like to start on the runway with Live Weather, you will find that the sim always gives you a default runway that does not match the current wind speed and direction.

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Simply click on the Runway placard to get the updated wind and direction.
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Then you can assign yourself to the correct active runway.
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Nice tip…hadn’t noticed this. I usually use aviationweather.gov to get the METAR for a given airport, and/or use FlightAware to get a live visual of the runways in use, but I’ll have to try the above.

Maybe a feature request to have an inset window on view above that shows the current METAR data?

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