Just for a chuckle, I loaded up Active Sky Evolution to see if our friend Irene is around. See screenshot below, now that is high fidelity, just a shame that FSX does a poor job of modeling weather, despite ASE's effort to improve it somewhat. I'm in Pennsylvania, I'm trying to get my FSX fix before Saturday night, as I'm sure there is a good chance I'm going to lose electricity for a few days. Brace yourselves people!

The little hurricane symbol part of build 647? I just fired up ASE for a trip in the NGX from KMCO to KFLL and dont have the hurricane showing on mine.

I just tried it too and its not on mine either.

Try restarting ASE. I have been watching this as well and I noticed a few situations were Irene doesn't load. Other times, it loads with no station data. When it does load properly, however, you have quite a storm in the sim. I tried to do a short flight out of MYNN last night and I couldn't taxi in a BN2. A B1900C worked a little better. I saw the oddest thing - it was soo windy, all of my parked AI started to blow away. I'm in the cockpit looking forward out of the windscreen while parked. All of the AI at the gates in front of me started rolling towards me at the same time. Very strange.

All, Make sure you are at B647 for ASE and that Depict Hurricanes is On in ASE. Also zoom must be 3000 or closer. She does appear in mine as well, so I know things are OK. Sometimes the hurricane data is being updated and things can briefly disappear. Hurricane data is handled a bit different than station data.

Realism junkie that I am, I would avoid flying though this weather scenario at all costs, but being that this is a sim it's kind of fun to see what happens if you put yourself in the eye of the storm, no pun intended. Funny story, my last serious flight in FSX was this past Monday in the PMDG NGX, operating as Delta 439 KATL to TNCM, and I had operated the flight per the real flight on 8/15/11, using the exact route and times (flightaware of course) and weather (using ASE historical weather) as the real life counterpart. I always fly a return leg, and I simulated the thru flight at TNCM back to KATL, but got tired and saved the flight at cruise right above the Bahamas. This was flown this past Monday. Fast forward to now, with Irene all over the news. I reloaded the saved flight just now, and intend to use the historical weather of 8/15 to complete the flight. But for kicks, I toggled ASE to force the weather depiction to real time, and it turns out I'm right in the middle of the hurricane!!!!!! Is that coincidence or not? The route for Delta Flight 440 from Princess Juliana to Atlanta Hartsfield is almost an EXACT replica of the "flightpath" of Hurricane Irene. As I have mentioned before, when I set out to simulate this route it was before Irene even started (this past monday), it's a strange coincidence that I find myself in the sim experiencing meteorological history, purely by accident! It's quite the experience to find my virtual world clashing with reality. Here are some shots, the NGX was rocking like a boat at rough sea at 36000ft (although that could be because the NGX has a quirk when recovering from a saved state where the speed will drop to stall buffet territory, as I still way above the weather, but look at the winds aloft!). This is just for fun, I'm going to restart FSX with the real weather of August 15th in keeping with flying by the book per the real life route.

Isn't the reported pressure a touch high?

Paul, Remember his data is interpolated, so it is a blending of data points, not just a single report.

Now if only I knew what "interpolated" meant............

An average from 4 data points in our case!!

So let me get this straight. This will take the weather happening on a certain day and project it onto FSX?

So let me get this straight. This will take the weather happening on a certain day and project it onto FSX?

Yup. FSX also has real world weather built in but ASE does a much better job of depicting it. AFAIK, ASE is the only program that actually depicts hurricanes. I'm sure Jim could do a much better job at outlining the differences between the FSX weather and ASE. Some of the technical stuff goes over my head but I know what I see in the sim is much more realistic with ASE.

td, Current weather, worldwide, wherever you fly, automatically downloaded and injected into FS. After you set ASE up, all you do is start ASE, wait a bit and then start FS. ASE will take care of things after that. OR The same as above or use historical weather from 2009 forward. Got a favorite storm from the Summer and can remember the date and time? You can call the data up from that date and time and fly with that weather as well!

The same as above or use historical weather from 2009 forward.

The the manual PDF is says "since Jan 1st, 2007", has this changed due to storage constraints?

Hi, No, just doing things from memory and I wanted to be safe and just give td, a time reference point. Didn't want him or anyone else to think we have historical data from a storm in 1988 to use.