Over the last 2 months or so, I notice more and more often severe wind changes up at cruising altitude. This causes the aircraft to move so much that the autopilot disconnects. Other things include severe heading changes, altitude changes of sometimes more than 500 feet, speed changes into overspeed or sometimes nearly stall. I only fly the fenix a320 so that’s my reference, but the wind indicator show changing winds as well. I always get this from about halfway into the flight and onwards. Yesterday I had this three times in 1-1.5 hours. The last two occurences were withing 15 minutes of eacht other. Why does this happen and what can I do about it?
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If you are flying in live weather, this may be the case. Here in North America, the jet stream and upper level winds have been very strong, severe even, and different in track than expected. Wind shear has been common at lower altitudes as well, accompanying strong/severe weather. Other parts of the world may have seen similar patterns, so you may be onto something there.
OTOH I don’t have the Fenix on Xbox, so perhaps you are experiencing something I would not know about?
I don’t really know what’s causing it. Had it in europe a few weeks back as well
Past few weeks of January, Arctic air and/or polar vortex shifts, most likely. Extreme upper air disturbances.
How do pilots manage this then in real world scenarios? Is the msfs interpretation overexaggerated?
Importance of wearing seat belts at all times when airborne. Keep an eye out for news stories of airliners unexpectedly encountering severe turbulence or large altitude changes. As to the accuracy of MSFS in this regard, no idea really as I have not encountered it myself. We are just kicking around a theory and there may very well be something else at play in the sim, right?
In the sim, this happens when you move from one weather forecast area into another, or indeed if the weather changes. METAR updates once an hour so the weather could change dramatically from one to the next. In the real world, there would be a gradual transition so this wouldn’t happen. Severe turbulence would be the only time you’d see anything like this
In the sim, my counter for it is to never fly the A20N above FL360 and that seems to be ok as you’ve got a wide enough safe speed band to prevent autopilot from disconnecting
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I got it on my last flight twice within 30 minutes
It’s happening again…
It’s a long standing stuff and asobo’s cr*p.
I almost went stall due to the wind shift
The wind changes too much between injections. Should be more frequent injections to avoid this. This is from 17Z today
Looks pretty familiar
Its is frustrating - its just a violent shift, today it was cruising along at FL360, and then suddenly im flying flying 30 knots faster, over-speeding, the plane is kicked off course and is instantly 500ft lower.
Its like the weather engine is not able to blend previous data with new data, it just overwrites its and ka-blammo the planes thrown off every axis. some planes cannot cope, and they disconnect the autopilot.
We are simply stuck with it. it is disappointing and ruins the experience.
Liam
I don’t know what the refresh rate for live weather is, but like I wrote earlier, I had this 2-3 times in 30 minutes. I don’t know if those are transistions with new updates or some sort of error in the data itself
It’s hourly, except 11Z and 17Z, when you have another injection at around half, those hours the worst to fly as the data is contrary. I guess they don’t want to allocate more resources for weather, as for eye candy game it’s not necessary anymore. Back in time when it was more for airliners (for a reason: graphic), the weather was injected in every 15 minutes…
Thank heavens I’m not losing my mind.
Just got a Thrust master TPR (to the replace the saitek). Trying to do some pattern work at KPVD in a 172 (trying some short field landings), latest metar (190@08) either allowed for 23 or 16.
Trying to taxi from gate 18 (the add-on doesn’t have any Northeast or Northwest ramp spawn points), it’s nearly impossible to get the aircraft rolling without fire-walling the throttle and differential braking to pivot (and the aircraft still wants to weather vane on the ground)
The 16 was meh (did a go-around), trying 23, I was bucking like horse on final (last time I checked, there wasn’t any wind shear advisories. Realistically the crosswind should’ve only resulted in a correcting crab
Asobo, this is unacceptable