Real weather is of course preferable, but large-scale extreme weather conditions need to be altered to a playable level for the mission aircraft.
In other words, the ‘turbulence’ option in assistance should not be locked for career mode, so you ultra simmers who want to ground yourself from the game for days or weeks due to extreme weather in real life, and we normal gamers who just want to fly and play can both be happy.
Also, I have googled the weather in northern France yesterday. And I do not believe there is some superstorm going on that could blow a Cessna 172 upside down, and it is actually a totally flyable condition for GAs.
This is not the case in the so-called career mode live weather. So this is not even the core topic of my reporting…
In all the Cessna 172 missions the turbulence feels like a permanent mountain wave, even over the sea. In the Caravan missions, in all of them, when I arrive at the destination I have to land in a hurricane.
Do you have the same issue if you follow the OP’s steps to reproduce it?
• YES
Provide extra information to complete the original description of the issue:
• You need to allow us to adjust the turbulence in career mode!!!
In real life, a Cessna 172 doesn’t move that much with a 10-knot wind!
Except my very first “First Flight” mission, is the one that is completely bonkers. You know the first time you go to the map, and the NPC voiceover explains the map then says there is only one mission, select it? That one.
Which means I can’t even progress to open up the full system yet and this mission is basically impossible
100% This is what I expected. Use real weather.
I’d also like some ability to set difficulty that maybe allows me to for example change the weather/time of day for reduced reward or something.
Career missions wont load with Live Weather off.
Live weather on I get really high winds, enough to turn the 172 into a bobble head. Upon landing I saw this, which might explain the higher than usual winds, if they are being doubled
If you click the „clouds“ toggle when selecting a mission in the menu to better see the mission path (at least in germany/france) , there are currently also still clouds below the then hidden clouds. Maybe there are really two weather layers applied?
All that does is visually hide the clouds around the mission area so you can get a better view if you want to. It has no effect on the actual mission weather.
Good luck with that But not really relevant to this bug report. You should open a new one for that or see if someone already has that you can contribute to.
If you fly a mission with a red dot: its live weather,
if you fly a mission without red dot: look in the tablet what the time is, its use the metar with that time. Historical weather for that mission from that day and time.
since there is a storm near england, we have a lot of wind in europe.
I did notice it was a fixed time, but I never correlated it to see what the actual weather was at that time and place. I’ll have to check as well. If that is the case I’m tempted to restart my career wherever the most docile weather in the world is
So for me the tablet, under info for the field, shows the current live METAR, but the mission time is always the same and the weather always the same for the last 3 days, so it can’t possibly be using the live weather.
Also the METAR in my EFB doesn’t match with the ATIS at all. Pretty sure ATIS is correct as the altimeter setting from ATIS matches field elevation, whereas the one from METAR in the EFB does not.
Flying a career mission over the Florida coast just now there was nearly zero turbulence. There was just a small amount for about a minute when I was over water. There was very little wind either.
Most other missions I have had some turbulence and wind but nothing extreme. Most of those missions were further north.
Do you have the same issue if you follow the OP’s steps to reproduce it?
• Yes - very frustrating indeed. Not only with the 172, but also with the Draco, XCub, and Viking career missions.
Provide extra information to complete the original description of the issue:
• The wind bursts against the airplanes at exponential rates; something is obviously wrong.
If relevant, provide additional screenshots/video:
• N/A, but I need to start recording my flights to help the community better.
It’s just frustrating and didn’t think I’d spend my retirement submitting bug reports every 5 minutes, instead of enjoying my hobby.
But not really relevant to this bug report. You should open a new one for that or see if someone already has that you can contribute to.
