OK, what am I doing wrong? Windsock and flags blow opposite direction wind is set for. The pictures are looking North, just like the direction dial. Behind “me” is South. I’m sure it’s something that will embarrass me! This is a customized scenery. Is it possible that the creator got North wrong? Thanks.
More likely the windsock is rotated by 180 degrees. It was quite common up to some updates ago (even on Asobo airports)
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To follow up on cgbFlight’s post, for a long time after release, windsocks were reversed 180° in the sim. Consequently, airport developers started reversing their windsocks 180° to compensate.
When that was fixed in Sim Update 4, a lot of airport designers had to revert their windsocks back to 0° to get them right. I’m sure there are plenty of third-party airport designers who haven’t ever done that.
Your best bet is to contact the airport developer and tell them that their windsocks are reversed. Hopefully they will fix it and release a new version.
It was a very frustrating day for me yesterday trying to use MSFS. I spent most of the time trying to find and/or deal with workarounds and roadblocks related to faulty Asobo programming. 
Hi all!
Is it just the wind socks? Took the Daher for a spin around PAPG and not only was the plane pushed in the wrong direction (wind was 134/4, i was flying hdg 050 and plane pointed to the right where those 4 kts. came from) but also far too much at 4 kts. …
regards,
Manue
That sounds like the aircraft is simply trying to maintain the selected heading and is pointing its nose to the right and into the wind to allow it to do so.
Well, i forgot to mention that i was on short final, no automation
So you were aiming to land on the runway and you’d have missed it if you hadn’t pointed your nose to the right of the centre-line?
without applying any rudder the nose wanted to point in the direction the wind came from. Wind came from the right, i had to roll/aply left rudder
At least on the ground and probably also in the air, a crosswind is likely to have more of an affect on the tail of the aircraft than the nose, which would be consistent with what you’re seeing. A big vertical fin will catch a lot of wind.
That sounds correct, you have to remember the aircraft is flying in the moving airmass.
In simple terms the wind from the right will be trying to blow the aircraft to the left of the runway (like how a leaf would be blown from the right side of the runway to the left), so you need to fight that by pointing to the right (into wind) to keep moving straight relative to the ground.
As an aside it’s also more common to fly co-ordinated flight with nose into wind (called crabbing as it’s a bit like crabs walking sideways) and de-crab during the flare than to fly the whole approach trying to use rudder to align the nose with the runway (called side slipping or wing low). I’m aware some light aircraft pilots do the latter, but it’s never been taught anywhere I’ve been and you’d never ever do it in a large jet or similar.
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Okay, so why do i have to point the nose in the direction the wind does NOT come from?
the exact opposite happend to me (on several occasions). Wind from the right, planed veered to the right.
i don´t hold a PPL or any license for that matter, but i claim to have a good understanding how physics work in this scenario. To my knowledge (and plese correct me if i´m wrong) there´s no situatuin where crosswind from the right causes the plane to slip/skid/turn to the right…
I have seen windsocks in game, just a few metres apart, pointing in opposite directions.
The other issue I regularly get is the wind direction in the glass cockpit in some aircraft being 180 degrees out from the actual wind effecting the aircraft. As I fly “heads up” most of the time and rarely look at instruments it does not really effect me much but it must really confuse some people.
Whilst airborne you should drift to the left but maintain your heading. With wheels on the ground you should still drift to the left but weathervane into the wind.
You had said that you were on a heading of 50 degrees and the wind was coming out of 134 degrees, which would be just about a perfect crosswind from the right.
Maybe you need to submit a ticket then and please let us know how that goes.
You said: “without applying any rudder the nose wanted to point in the direction the wind came from. Wind came from the right, i had to roll/aply left rudder”
That is correct behaviour.
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i might have been a little fuzzy here.
Point being: wind from right → plane will be forced left. That´s why crabbing exists. I´ve never seen a plane that had to crab AWAY from the wind.
Anyways, i´ll try it again. Maybe it was just a rudder trim issue, i don´t know. Sorry for the confusion, boys
if that was the case, you wouldn´t have to do anything to stay on track in Xwind conditions?
Am i just getting things wrong here? Why are airliners crabbing INTO the wind then, and not away from it?