What is going on with live weather?

I just bought the scenery pack for St. Martin, and Grand Case, and wanted to try out the M20R here.

I have Live players only, Live weather turned on.

The 530 is showing 2-4kts:

The windsock would seem to reflect this:

What is not clear in this shot are the trees behind the still, and upright, palm trees, which are being blown around like a hurricane is hitting them. The sea is equally perturbed:

Some of the trees are moving so much they are horizontal!

image

I had just taken off. and was looking out my left wing to take some shots of the wind, when my aircraft just updended, like someone had grabbed a hold of it, and thrown it to the ground!

The only time I’ve seen weather this bad was when I manually set up 150kt winds, and even then it was somewhat controllable as long as you were head on to it! :slight_smile:

Can’t reconcile what I see with what the 530 is showing.

I used slew mode to raise myself up to around 5000ft, and the air was smooth.

As I descended through 1000ft back, wind speed rapidly picked up, and at around 800ft I saw this:

image
image

At 700ft:

image

600ft:

500ft:

image

The bursts now make it uncontrollable. Using slew mode to lower a bit further, and at 200ft its back to normal:

I think live weather is slightly broken here! :grinning:

Just got cleared to land at Grand Case…how about no!

image

I did manage to land, by using slew to get below this high speed wind layer of about 500ft, and as I taxied the trees stopped freaking out, and weather returned to normal.

image

I think someone rebooted something just then. :slight_smile:

3 Likes