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Just fly between UK and Norway. But I have encountered this when flying over Brazil and continental Europe. I thought it was a one of, but this is happening rather often.
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1.27.21.0
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Now on descent to ENGM the plane had a huge blow with a strong wind change and pressure throwing me completely off the descent profile around FL200. Things are definetely smooth as I thought they would be with SU10.
Heading west at altitude you can get pretty strong headwinds, with variable headings as you descend. It all depends on what the weather is doing that day…
But yet again, I’ve never seen it like this in any simulator in 12 years in this hobby. Call it in ActiveSky, X-Plane, xEnviro, FSReal Weather, you name it. Including FS own, I’ve never encountered a random crazy wind like this as I have the 3 times I’ve flown this week. Nothing being reported in a SIGMET or SIGWX. I was flying over the North Sea and the tropopause was at least 3000 ft above from observing the SIGWX.
Well, turbulence can occure even if it’s not reported IRL. Well, i just pretend it’s turbulence and pretend i’m a pilot that need to make procedure according to the weather that is happening in the sim. Like pilots need to IRL too. I have flown many times and i noticed turbulence. I bet that turbulence were unexpected too. If it were expected they would have turned on seatbelts signs before the turbulence happened.
It’s the unpredicted things about weather that makes it intersting to me. I like that this sim has unpredicted things in weather, First sim that has weather that is unpredicted.
Did you note the time of that change? I have those instant changes in pressure and winds at around 17:00Z i have noted. That i think is an issue though when next weather update comes. That should be a smooth transition.
Those up and down changes in winds only you showed in the video i think is turbulence. I had same up and down motions. I was flying between EKCH and ENGM today. It were smooth at the beginning then it started for some minutes and then it got smooth again.
I have done some digging around, inlcuding asking some pilots I know, and the behaviour is normal, not the wind, I’ve shown him the footage and he said that is not CAT, but the IRS trying to get the read. You just have to deal with it, so that’s what I will do.
With regards to the suden change, yes, I think it was around that time, it is not smooth. Some other time I got the wind suddenly changing in cruise from HW to TW bringing IAS close to stall, engines ramping up, then back to HW, IAS spikes up almost overspeed. This is the kind of annoying thing that keeps me getting back to X-Plane (besides loving that sim).
Direct quote from Robert Randazzo from PMDG on his latest announcement:
Another area upon which we are putting a lot of focus lately is pitch/roll/yaw/thrust channel stability and smoothness. In the the simulated environment in which the 737 lives in MSFS, there is a tremendous amount of atmospheric violence that the real airplane doesn’t often deal with. Since the F/D and the A/P control law are very dependent upon PIDs, the rate of change data being violently oscillatory is problematic from a mathematical point of view.
My flight today - flying from Shetlands to Faroe Islands at 10,000 ft.
Winds aloft reported in multiple weather services - southern(ish) at 10-20 knots.
MSFS winds aloft - mostly 20 knots from the north! Directly opposite to the real winds in the area. Sometimes the wind shifted 180 degrees. And then back to the northern…
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