Hello fellow pilots. I’m humbly requesting your help there, because I kind of like the game, and the career mode, however quirky it is. But after I encountered very bad weather in a small Cessna 172, I’ve understood the lesson (I crashed after the landing, very nice…, and some other times, I landed by pure chance).
So, I try to understand how I can get the best accurate info about the weather before requesting a mission. So I’ve learnt to open the wind layer on the map (but in career, it just shows colors and directions, and nothing else, but that’s a lot of good info, still). I’ve learnt that in order to have the weather indicated by this world map layer, I must select a time when the red dot appears on the mission, so it will start at the selected time (and apply the weather that was at that moment), and still, I get a number of conflicting data about the weather to the point it’s ludicrous.
Here is an example for a mission (sorry, the screens are in French, I didn’t thought about changing the game language before doing this). The mission is a parcel delivery between LHBC (Békés Airport in Hungary) and LH58 (Czàkvàr airport, which is closed IRL, but whatever) and here are the weather shown by the different screens for each airports (just looking for the wind informations):
| Airport | World map | Briefing | METAR | TAF | Performances | Runway info |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LHBC | 6kt | 5kt - 182° | 6kt - 160° | 8kt - 180° | 12kt - 260° | 6kt - 160° |
| LH58 | 8kt | 1kt - 180° | 10kt - 10° | 12kt | 12kt - 260° | 10kt - 10° |
And here are the screenshots to support these numbers.
So, I can’t really make sense about anything right now. If any of you had some advice about that, this would help me greatly enjoying the game and not being afraid of encountering weather that my plane cannot handle.
Thanks in advance