Hi,Yesterday evening, I made a flight from Paris Charles de gaulle (LFPG) to Lisbon (LPPT). When I planned my flight I noticed that I will encounter gusts of 30kt at FL370 when entering the Atlantic ocean. Arriving just before the coast, gusts were here but engine didn't stop going up and down, that's very annoying for ears and I don't think the real plane react like that. What are we supposed to do in this situation (except changing flight level, which is not permitted by fs2002 atc) to avoid this annoying behaviour of the engines ? and does PIC permits it ?This is the only thing I never understood in flight simulation ...Thanks in advance.Best regards,Guillaume

Nobody to give me an answer ? ...

Two things, you can "hide" from ATc and change the FL. Better, what weather program do you use, if it's FSmeteo, you can check an option to supress gusts in upper winds. Also play around with fsuipc settings to limit changes in winds.

Thanks for your answer but I already did averything you mentionned.- I am using fsmeteo- In fsuipc I set up very slow wind changes but didn't suppress gusts in upper winds as they append in real life as mentionned in my meteo report I made before the flight.- Changing FL involves canceling IFR in FS2002 (or change com frequency but that's boring, no communications at all), so no radar vector at destinationI'd like to know what to do with pic in these conditions to avoid throttle to go up and down and how it is performed in real life :)I thought about disabling the autothrottle and use manual thrust when gusts occurs, what do you think ?Best regards,Guillaume

Gusts in upper winds realistic are you sure? Peter Dowson wrote in the documentation for fsuipc and also wrote to me once upper winds are generally steady and fs really exaggerates the effects of changes anyway. I still think you should supress them or learn to live with it and use manual throttle. Real pilots sometimes have to do that anyway in turbulence, so I've read.

Ok but here is what I had on my weather report yesterday :19528G38KTS or something like that at FL370.When arriving at FL370, the gusts were actually of about 30-40kts, I could verify it in the PFD, they were not exagerated by FS2002, that was planned... Maybe I'll use manual thrust for that situation...Thanks again for your help.Best regards,Guillaume

Guillaum,I think something is not right in the weather report that you quote. You would never see an upper wind reported as such in either FD or chart format. Gust information is only given in a METAR or TAFOR report.As well, with several thousand hours of flying around in the upper troposhere/lower stratosphere, I have never seen a "horizontal" gust as you describe. Vertical shears, chop and turbulence that will cause airspeed fluctuations (usually in the vicinty of the jet stream), but never a horizontal gust such as you see in the lower levels near the ground.I use FSMETEO as well (love the program) and have not seen a report as you describe. I would suggest ticking the box for "suppress upper wind gusts" (or whatever it is called, I don't have it open in front of me).One last point, when encountering turbulence in cruise it is often recommended to disconnect the autothrottle so it doesn't "hunt" or chase the speed. Just set an appropriate cruise power setting and accept the minor speed deviations.Kevin in CYOW

Kevin,thanks a lot for your precise response. As you mentionned it, it was a METAR report so gust was specified.I wanted to know if in real like you could encounter such gust at high altitude, apparently, the answer is no, so I will tick the box to suppress upper wind gusts.Thanks again.Best regards,Guillaume