Michel Verheughe 959873 Posted April 6, 2006 at 08:40 AM Posted April 6, 2006 at 08:40 AM Greetings, gentlemen of the list. After a couple of timid trials with VATSIM, from X-Plane and Xsquawkbox, I meet a problem: When online, I can't control the weather! That would be fine but ... I try to teach taildragger technique to friends and one important element is crosswind landing. To that purpose, I need to play God and decide the wind speed and direction. Since I have friends with X-Plane and with MS FS, I am told that the latter can disable real-time METAR. But - as far as I can see - not Ben Supnik's Xsquawkbox. I can write to him and ask for the feature (which is supported by MS FS Squawkbox) but before that I'd like to know if one of you, guys, has found a workaround. Cheers, Michel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruth McTighe 824054 Posted April 6, 2006 at 09:46 PM Posted April 6, 2006 at 09:46 PM The point of VATSIM is that everyone flies with the same weather, so it comes from the VATSIM servers. It does mean that you can't predict what winds you get, any more than you can in the real world. Ruth VATGOV7 Ruth McTighe Heathrow Director, Essex Radar, Thames Radar, London Information [Mod - Happy Thoughts]t webmistress CIX VFR Club http://www.cixvfrclub.org.uk/ Webmistress Plan-G http://www.tasoftware.co.uk/ Now not a VATanything Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michel Verheughe 959873 Posted April 7, 2006 at 06:58 AM Author Posted April 7, 2006 at 06:58 AM Hello Ruth, Yes, I understand that but I am told that SquawkBox for MS FS has the possibility to enable/disable weather from VATSIM. However I haven't found how to do it with Xsquawkbox for XP. One solution, for the crosswind tuition, would be to fly XP in the IPtoIP mode and share a METAR file with the trainee, but ... I also have friends flying MS FS! Cheers, Michel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith Smith Posted April 7, 2006 at 03:16 PM Posted April 7, 2006 at 03:16 PM Michel, Another option is to find an airport that is currently reporting a crosswind and fly there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michel Verheughe 959873 Posted April 8, 2006 at 09:02 AM Author Posted April 8, 2006 at 09:02 AM Indeed, Keith. Thank you. Cheers, Michel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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