I know there are apps that can look at METARS but what’s demanded here is very simply looking at what MSFS is displaying at the destination airport–NOT what it should be to match real world METARS etc. The data is already there all that’s needed is a way to read and display it. If Asobo changes how often weather updates happen this applet will simply be able to continue to display what’s happening at the destination airport. How about it Asobo, or creative community programmers?
I’d rather they fix the weather server so it actually is like the real weather…
Instead of providing a way to find out what the random/incorrect “live” weather is somewhere else.
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Ahh but it is like the real weather, but the realweather is ultra dynamic often, so demands more frequent updates, etc. My sense is that is the primary defect–infrequent updates to METARS. But for now everyone flying MSFS would be able to plan their arrival if only the weather in-sim was readable.
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Until the wind issue is fixed, knowing the ‘injected’ weather doesn’t guarantee it will help you. What issue?.. the one where wind direction isn’t always what ATIS, the wind sock and tower agree on. I think the sock is most accurate but regardless, having MSFS give me destination weather before I depart would be untrustworthy.
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That would be cool, but…
I’d like it even better if, upon approach, you tune ATIS to get the current METAR, and then have the option of selecting your runway.
- OR -
Fix ATC to assign the correct runway based on the METAR provided by ATIS.
BONUS POINTS
Be able to ask ATC for an alternate approach and runway, when appropriate (i.e. - no significant wind/inbound vector.)
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Here you go! And much, much more:
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Pilot2Edge does have free D-ATIS available. U.S. West Coast only.
As far as I have found out no one else has free ATIS info available. If someone knows where to find D-ATIS information available I would “love” the add that to my program.
(D-ATIS is: digital text ATIS information)
[quote=“TestPilotDan, post:4, topic:400271, full:true”]aving MSFS give me destination weather before I depart would be untrustworthy.
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Of course it would be, but being able to open a simple applet and see what it is enroute at anytime, and check it again at any time, etc would be invaluable.
Since the sim doesn’t simulate VHF range limits (except when hearing ATC comms - it’s an option to hear less other aircraft comms), you can always dial in destination AWOS/ATIS on COM2. There are airports where there is neither. IRL, at those locations you need to call the airport ops directly, or be connected to the nearest WX reporting station via radio or landline.
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I use FltPlan Go on my phone, but it does not have a digital interface to the Sim. It’s more of a “real world” tool provided by Garmin 
Check out FltPlan Go… it may meet your needs.
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If you use an external EFB like Little Nav Map, the airport COMs tab shows all frequencies available at each airport (ground, tower, ATIS). LNM is reading it directly from the sim’s NavData.
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But is it reading weather in-sim, or just local METARS that may not be in-sync w/ MSFS, since apparently MSFS is updated infrequently. Right now I just open ActiveSky and it stays open enough to read the local METAR at my destination, however as I say they don’t always jive. Tuning a COM to ATIS of a specific airport would work it seems. If the departure airport is 1000m away from destination, what are the odds the COM freq for the destination airport will in fact be that airport?
Hi All
For me the necessity for the planning map on MSFS showing exactly the same weather as is outside not as important as having the AI ATC acting correctly.
I like all other pilots will fly with the weather we are given, but it’s impossible to plan a flight correctly when for instance the wind direction shown on the planning map changes the minute you get inside your aircraft, I’ve many times planned a departure on LNM based on the weather given on the map only to find once loaded into the sim the wind is 180 degrees to what was shown. And my planned departure is now downwind.
The wind given in the aircraft though does seem to be based on a given metar checked in Meteoblue,windy, or any provider, but then we hit the current problem which is the metar information in sim is between 2 and 6 hours out of date !!!.
So like I say I’d be happy if they could just get it that the planning screen reads a current metar and the ATC are up to speed
Ex Tenebris
I have noticed the lag as well, with both weather and with live traffic. Oftentimes I pass an airliner inbound to land at the airport I’ve just departed, only to discover that the actual flight landed as much as an hour earlier.
I’ve also noted the recorded log times are not in sync with the computer time.
MSFS seems to exist in its own little world… sort of like The Matrix.
…or fix ATIS so that it reports the correct real-world weather - and then uses it to assign the correct runway.
If Asobo are incapable of doing that, then hire someone who can. Given that the RW weather seems to be about 24hrs behind reality, it seems pretty useless really, especially for Vatsim etc.
Very pretty though…even if it doesn’t work.
Of course they are capable of doing this, but they’re doing other things at the moment. Easy peasy once they decide to take up the issue and address it.
Of course but, unfortunately they seem completely disinterested as the problem has nothing to do with scenery or sight-seeing,
By ‘incapable’, I mean ‘unable or unwilling’.
Indeed–they are prioritizing what matters most to incoming console users, very few of which will prioritize weather matching real world conditions. For now, all PC users would benefit from knowing well in advance of arrival what conditions are present at that moment to assist in planning their arrival. And all users, PC and console, do appreciate scenery: this is why the vast majority of P3D and XP users end up spending multiples more $$ on scenery upgrades than they ever did for the core sim they use.
You can totally plan your flight the same way is done IRL.