ISSUE DESCRIPTION
Description of the issue:
Visibility depiction in the simulator is consistently inaccurate and does not reflect real-world METAR conditions.
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Vertical visibility (VV) values have no visual effect - even with reports like VV001, the sim shows clear visuals well above the expected 200 ft ceiling.
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Reported visibility (e.g. 2000 m or less) is not represented correctly - the simulator usually displays much higher actual visibility.
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RVR (Runway Visual Range) values are not implemented or have no impact, even though these were at least partially functional in MSFS 2020.
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Overall, low-visibility conditions (fog, mist, haze) appear far too clear, breaking immersion and realism, especially for IFR operations.
Weather:
Any location with limited visibility or vertical visibility reported (e.g. VV002, RVR600, 9999, etc.) in foggy conditions.
FREQUENCY OF ISSUE
Occurs every time in low-visibility or fog conditions when the METAR reports visibility less than 5000 m or includes VV/RVR data.
REPRODUCTION STEPS
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Load into any airport with poor visibility conditions.
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Compare the in-sim visibility to the actual METAR data.
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Observe that the simulator renders far clearer conditions than reported.
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Note that vertical visibility and RVR values have no effect.
Can replicate:
Spawning at ESNQ with live weather (just moving to day time to see external visibility).
Reported visibility in Metar is 1800m, into the sim 2650m:
Spawning at BIEG with live weather (just moving to day time to see external visibility).
Reported visibility in Metar is 500m, into the sim 6120m:
Note: visibility on the 2nd screenshot at BIEG seems to be far less than the 6120m reported in the weather debug window but more than the reported 500m in the Metar.
Can a moderator please explain why is this still not flagged as bug logged, thanks!
Probably because it only has eight votes.
Unless that number changes drastically, I doubt it will be high on any fix list.
Bear in mind that the last item on the published bug list this month is position 120, and that issue has 58 votes.
That doesn’t mean it won’t get looked into, but it may give some indication as to what you are up against.
This is happening outside the Beta as well. Feels like Asobo is spitting in our face with how terrible weather has been in MSFS 2024.
It’s honestly very disappointing, that 5 months passed and this still hasn’t been bug-logged. I don’t think it’s fair to determine if something is bugged or not based on votes? I think to many of the users the biggest stopper for msfs was always weather, fixing something that was working before probably doesn’t require too much effort for a good result.
It’s not saying that it isn’t an issue, and being a simmer myself, I certainly understand your frustration.
It’s just that they consider how many people are affected by a particular report as a main consideration in the priority of fixing.
Obviously when items have many hundreds of votes, those issues are going to be prioritized.
Yeah, since the release of MSFS 2020 we have never ever received Visibility outside of a metar ever. Visibility is always unlimited literally out side of the metar range. This has been discussed many times and they have never made an effort to fix this immersion killer. Its really sad we can’t get a Sim update to fix all the weather problems and improve it, I feel its time enough they open up the Weather API to 3rd parties so we can have some descent and all time realistic weather because their weather system is fully capable of it, just seems Asobo doesn’t really care to do a Sim update to maximize these weather issues.
