Unable to set Weather Presets in Normal Flight

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I enjoy live weather but don’t know why the clouds look practically the same in all the locations around the globe.

In discovery mode or discovery flight is it? I see lots of variations and beautiful looking clouds. I’ve never seen those in game!

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Hi @opencamswrx,
The Discovery Flights use weather presets. For example the DACH Vienna flight uses “Few Clouds”.

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Nice! Is there any way to use weather presets during the normal flights? I disabled live weather from the options but all the various presets are greyed out or not usable.

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Hi @opencamswrx ,
Yes, weather presets can be used in normal flight (i.e. Free Flight). There are a couple of ways to do this:

  • In the World Map, click on the weather icon at the top right to open the weather window.
    Note: Make sure that in the Multiplayer Section, “Live Players” is not selected, otherwise the Weather and Time area is greyed out, and time & weather is set to real-time conditions.
    If Multiplayer / All Players or Multiplayer / OFF (GROUP ONLY) is selected, then:
    Under Weather & Time, select either:
    “Preset” and then choose the Preset & time you want , or…
    “Custom”. Turn off the live weather by clicking on the “Live Weather” toggle button on the right-hand side. This will enable the weather customization options. You can save your custom preset by clicking on the Save button under the Live Weather toggle:
    Live Weather Toggle Button
    Note: if all Multiplayer Options are greyed out & unavailable, but the Live option is “enabled” (white) make sure Multiplayer is enabled in Options / General Options / Data / Data Connection. This should allow you to change from “Live Players” to either Multiplayer / All Players or Multiplayer / OFF (GROUP ONLY).

  • While in flight, open the menu bar & choose the weather widget. Turn off the live weather by clicking on the “Live Weather” toggle button on the right-hand side. This will allow you to choose a preset or customize the weather.

Hope this helps!

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Thanks a lot for the detailed information!

Sorry, none of that helped. I don’t have xbox live, so no multiplayer. I have tried with MP off and on in the options, although it still says in red letters “multiplayer disabled”. So I still cant access the weather presets. it’s really strange.

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I @opencamswrx,
I’ve moved your posts & my replies to this new topic in Weather & Live Weather as we were starting to deviate from the original topic ( What’s going on with the Live Weather?).

Ok, I guess we should fill in a few blanks first:

  • Are you on PC (if so, Steam or MS Store), Xbox console, or Xbox cloud?

Can you take & post screenshots to this topic of:

Thanks. :slightly_smiling_face:

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Everything looks the same to me as your screen shots except the weather presets. Those are greyed out.

Xbox Series X and S, same issue on both. The other one’s for my kid, hehe

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I saw a very similar topic somewhere on the forum. Please add a screenshot showing the greyed-out weather presets.

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Thank you, I’m definitely not subscribing to X.Live to get manual weather presets. Appreciate the help though.

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