Weather degradation

[Perrry]

@CharlieFox00

I haven’t seen rain circles in several updates.

Here is a report of that rain bubble after su12.

NEXRAD display shows METAR bubble around airports

Thank you for using the Bug section, using templates provided will greatly help the team reproducing the issue and ease the process of fixing it. Are you using Developer Mode or made changes in it? No Have you disabled/removed all your mods and addons? Yes Brief description of the issue: While in-flight, when using the NEXRAD overlay on the MFD (G1000 NXi, G3000/5000), the readout will show a METAR Bubble around selected airports nearby. It’s a circle of precipitation perfectly…

@CharlieFox00

This is the root cause, while this…

But even if they are in sync the METAR has too low details to be able to match the more detailed forecasted model. (I know you want other sources of weather like radar) The cloudbase are messured from ground at that specific location. But 1NM away it can be 200FT lower cloudbase that the weather station never observe.

@CharlieFox00

Who is “we?”

Well, Asobo said that “we” as community voted for this METAR thing. Thats why i said “we” even that i didn’t vote for that. I reported an issue of MB to zendesk not injecting the winds propperly at release (225@3KTS) that i were sure was an issue with the data from Meteoblue. Because i were sure MB didn’t predict those winds globally at the same time. But instead they added the winds from METAR soon after release 2020 (november i think it was). After that we’ve seen more and more added instead of making sure MB were injected propperly to start with.

@CharlieFox00

Who is arguing for less choice?

I don’t know actually. Thats why i can’t understand why the devs said they couldn’t see a point adding the old weather system as an optional feature when we as community voted for that question to be asked in a q&a.

@CharlieFox00

What I hear is accuracy is not important, or worse, a lack of understanding as to how weather works (beyond the visual rendering)

I have always used planning tools while flying in flight simulators. For me it’s really important to use. I also often check simvar values that shows the actually winds that happening in the sim. I would never say anything else. I also want the weather to be 100% accurate to what i can see outside my windows while flying. But most of the time i can’t confirm if it’s accurate anyway because i mostly fly far from where i have my window. But i’m completely sure that will not happen even if they add all of those sources that are available. Thats why i accepted the less accuracy i got in the sim as long as i could check MB weather page to plan my flights because thats the source i knew they used and didn’t compare the MB source with those METARS. Then when i actually got used to the change and actually liked that system they suddenly changed it to an in my opinion much worse system.

Edit: I agree, we will never be able to help them troubleshoot this engine.