Hi all being trying to work out when u ask the controller when u press lv freq for wx i know it gets the weather info and airport info when ur close to ur dest but was wondering if ur half way and u press this option does it only give u the closet airport info thats near u?

Hi,The leave frequency for weather button will give you the weather from the nearest weather location during your flight.If you want to get the arrival airport weather ,this is generally available within 70nm of your destination.If you leave it alone and wait,at the 50nm range you can automatically get the weather however Otto must have the comms.I hope that this is of some help.Norman

Hi,The leave frequency for weather button will give you the weather from the nearest weather location during your flight.If you want to get the arrival airport weather ,this is generally available within 70nm of your destination.If you leave it alone and wait,at the 50nm range you can automatically get the weather however Otto must have the comms.I hope that this is of some help.Norman

thx for that yes now understood thx

Does real life pilots still use this feature?? I know sometimes the controler approach and tower gives wind direction and arriving rwys. i.e winds 060@04 clear to land rwy 12L

At the distance we are talking about tower communications is not reliable. In addition if you look at the airport information where there are large busy airports pilots are requested to get ATIS (get weather) before contacting tower. Each weather update is identified with a letter (pronounced phonetically). Then when contacting tower you might say "Minneapolis Tower Delta D1234 with Golf at Bravo (or six miles NE) landing. This keeps tower communications short. I don't recall if this technique is used with approach.ATIS is used when farther out when no airline dispatch data communications is available (ACARS) but still used as a check even if it is. This informs the pilot of current altimeter, winds, visibility, and ceiling and active runways in use so they note weather conditions and if VFR or IFR conditions exist and if various approach minimums can be met or if they need to go to an alternate airport. As an example if pilots know an airport meets VFR minimums they will request a visual approach which is smaller than an IFR pattern and they can take shortcuts with a base closer to the arrival runway threshold saving time and fuel rather than taking the longer IFR final leg. ATC must approve and no vectors are given from that point with tower advising traffic for separation. RC will just clear you for the visual approach and you are on your own for separation until on close final.If your destination airport does not have ATIS an airport nearby can be used for weather. RC can also provide FSS (in the FAA areas) or equivalent flight service station emulation - whatever - as used by real world pilots.FS and RC do not provide this but FYI in the real world continuous weather broadcasts can be on NDB and VOR audio channels - just a miscellaneous item for you.I think but I'm not sure that you can listen to FS ATIS using COM2. Just tune to the frequency. However with RC FS ATC audio is turned down to avoid confusion in the FS audio settings. RC is dedicated to COM 1 and does not use the FS audio mixer settings.If you use Active Sky ASE in FSX with DWC on, which forces Global Weather mode, then the weather at your destination (and everywhere in the FS world) follows the weather at your aircraft location. Check out ASE updates for alternative solutions. However RC with a modification to FSUIPC.ini will grab your destination weather report based on the ASE metar for your destination airport directly from ASE. Unfortunately this does not correct the weather used to establish AI patterns which will change as you get closer due to the ASE global weather mode and therefore RC approach may assign a conflicting runway when it looks at the AI pattern 40 nm out from the airport.Sorry for the extended explanation but I wanted you to be aware of some difficulties you might experience.