Using Meteoblue to understand in-game weather, an exposé

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@HalberQuacky

But, in my case I use a 3rd party developer tool that can directly monitor the simconnect atmospheric environment variables for ambient pressure, total and static air temperature, air density, wind direction, wind velocity, and pressure altitude.

This is what I was looking for

@HalberQuacky

The METAR wind direction and speed is being injected into the sim environment exactly as reported. Now, the sim may be applying a gust factor to that value that changes the aerodynamic effect on the flight model. The tool I use will not show that.

So, I think what they are doing is stripping the first three characters and the last two, as opposed to the stripping the first three characters and the next two. Every time I compare ATIS to real, it always reports the wind to be the Gust value of a metar wind report for the airfield. Just as for dewpoint, I don’t think FS directily deals with gust factor from metar. So, personally, I think it’s just a logic mistake made by someone who doesn’t have an understanding of aviation weather.