Ian Edwards Posted November 27, 2021 at 09:01 AM Posted November 27, 2021 at 09:01 AM Hi. I`m back to simming again after being away for some years. Woke up this morning to snow on the ground, so I thought I`d switch on the sim, and take a look. Disappointingly, no snow was depicted in the sim. This has put me off doing a full Vatsim flight. I`m aware Microsoft is working on the bugs, but to me, FS2020 is not ready yet to be taken seriously with online flying. Am I wrong? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andreas Fuchs Posted November 27, 2021 at 11:58 AM Posted November 27, 2021 at 11:58 AM (edited) More or less. You cannot rely on the weather completely yet, because MSFS is using grid weather data from "Meteoblue". In one of the last SimUpates they also included METAR data and in the next step they wanted to merge Meteoblue's weather data and METARs in the data stream that Meteoblue provides to MSFS, instead of MSFS trying to merge both pieces of data in the SIM. They still need a good amount of fine-tuning to get it right, but I guess they will get there, eventually. Unfortunately the developers will not open up the weather-interface of the SIM to allow professional programs like ActiveSky to do their job... https://twinfinite.net/2021/09/microsoft-flight-simulator-sim-update-6/ Quote Asobo is working with MeteoBlue to improve the injection of real-time weather data. Instead of having MeteoBlue’s data and METAR data interpolated by the simulator, MeteoBlue will directly include METARs into their own data. Edited November 27, 2021 at 12:00 PM by Andreas Fuchs Cheers, Andreas Member of VATSIM GermanyMy real flying on InstagramMy Twitch streams of VATSIM flights and ATC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Shearman Jr Posted November 27, 2021 at 02:27 PM Posted November 27, 2021 at 02:27 PM Since the latest MSFS sim update, I have noticed some extremely harsh transitions between regions when it came to depicted winds and other atmospheric conditions. Just the other night I had what felt like two midair collisions which really were just sudden wind changes. So it's a work in progress on their end, for sure. But I'm a bit surprised that a matter of whether the grass appears green or white should put you off completely from flying online. To each their own, of course -- but for me, there's still quite a bit of entertainment and education value to be had, despite the digital world not yet being a perfect reproduction of the real one. Cheers, -R. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andreas Fuchs Posted November 27, 2021 at 05:57 PM Posted November 27, 2021 at 05:57 PM 3 hours ago, Robert Shearman Jr said: Since the latest MSFS sim update, I have noticed some extremely harsh transitions between regions when it came to depicted winds and other atmospheric conditions. Yes, this has become a common occurrence, everyone's talking about it in "my group". Cheers, Andreas Member of VATSIM GermanyMy real flying on InstagramMy Twitch streams of VATSIM flights and ATC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martijn Joon Posted November 27, 2021 at 08:21 PM Posted November 27, 2021 at 08:21 PM Ive been doing some flights last couple of days in MSFS and while it’s certainly not perfect it seems to be pretty good in my opinion. Transitions are a bit hard sometimes but that’s just like the AS5? I think? Days, just did a first flight with the DC-6 and was flying constantly in clouds at 10k ft with rain and all kinds of stuff going on. In my opinion it’s pretty good but not yet perfect Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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