Man, I've got really mixed feelings on this one. About half the time in FSX I use real weather as defined by an addon, and about half the time with the fair weather setting. In Flight I love the severe weather conditions. In fact I think the weather is Flight's strongest characteristic and is light years ahead of anything before it. So as I said, I am really mixed up!Great subject!

+1 Exact same feeling.

I can think of several things on top of my wishlist (AI traffic would be at the top) which need to be addressed before Real World Weather becomes a concern.

About 90% of the time,I use real weather and time in FSX..

It's not a "must have" for me, but I do strongly feel that it should be included simply due to it being a "must have" for so many.

HelloI never fly without real world weather supplied by Active sky either downloaded as I fly or archived weather to match the time of day.The ability to also setup whatever weather pattern and wind direction you want and have some degree of dynamism is very important.canned themes do not cut it anymore.To simulate flight you also need to closely simulate the environment, it is as important as getting the aircrafts flight characteristics right.Weather is one of the most important aspects of a realistic flight sim, to not have it would be a real step backwards.And they know how to do it, so why not include it.

Haha, well, I think 10 is a few... Compared to the millions of variations I can make in FSX (theoretical )

No problem, it's just that I tend to be rather literal.

I am calling that MS Flight preset "unfair weather"... :P

I've been complaining about the "cartoon-like" clouds in the Fair Weather theme since my first post in Flight's Beta Discussion forum (on Jan 5th) . . . THAT one needs some serious fixin. :Sick:Hopefully we'll get some Winter weather themes when the Alaska Pack is released.

I don't know if real world weather is as important as dynamic weather. Sure, it is cool to look out your window and then go fly in the same weather that you see. However, I do not think it is as important as having weather that at least acts like real weather. What I mean is that I would prefer weather that changes over time, is random and at times unpredictable. It does not have to be what is really happening, simply a representation of what does happen in a given areas climate cycle.

This would satisfy me also.

I always use RWW. Often I first check weather on some of my favorite places, then pick the place based on the weather. Problem with RWW is that there aren't that many reporting stations (especially in Alaska...), so it's not that accurate. I would prefer better small scale weather simulation without RWW over the current REX/FSX RWW. Something like mountain valleys causing a change in wind direction would be nice. Seeing a fast jet cause spiraling turbulance in clouds would be awesome...With RWW it would be cool if they could take a satellite or radar image and put the raindrops "exactly" where they are in RW :-)

I'd like either a full real-wx engine, or the ability to "mimick" weather conditions (ie., like FSX, can manually set visibility, cloud cover, precip, wind/gust). The pre-canned stuff likely won't model "prevailing winds" etc, which is really important in places like Alaska.BillKGYH

Important for me as I read the METAR off skyvector and use TAFs and winds aloft off Aeronav.

I would definately love the addition of RW Weather. Without question.

But I still want Real World Weather in Flight, as I fly FSX mostly with it.

I do too and personally I think it is one of those "must have" things (not so with ATC!). Forrest Gump's mother would probably say "weather is like a box of chocolates... you never know what you are going to get."But here's the rub... with Hawaii so much of the time it is just plain beautiful weather. Dry and relatively clear (and warm) in the summer and rainy (and slightly cooler) during the winter months. So to pick a clear skies theme is not far off from "reality" much of the time. Funny as I write this, they have storms there now.... but then that is winter from time to time. But rains are usually quick and weird... can be raining on one side of the Pali's like maybe Honolulu side and you go thru the tunnel and not raining on the Kailua / Kaneohe side (or even weirder... on one side of the street and not the other). And hard for me to remember an "all day long" rain like one can get in many parts of the U.S.My hope is by the time Alaska is released, Jepp Wx will be included. Because that is an entirely different weather story.

It's super important to me. I'd say I flew 90% of the time with RWW in FSX. Part of flying to me is reading the weather maps, winds aloft charts, and planning my fuel (and planning a fudge factore for when the weather forecast is wrong). If there is no real world weather then there is none of this. Unless, MS includes some form of weather reporting for the sim weather then I could get by without real world weather.- Gary Letona

Real world weather I'm not too bothered about, but I do want to set-up my own conditions... However until they provide some better cloud textures, which may not happen, my interested will be limited. At present the skies are at odds with the terrain, spoiling any positives it has... for me the atmospheric environment is as important as the ground environment.

Everytime I fly FSX I use real weather. For me, this is essential.I greatly miss it in Flight. I think it is sort of a lost opportunity not to have it in Flight, because with real weather you can fly 100 times over the same scenery, but still have a different experience each time. (Microsoft, are you listening... replay value!)Yes, I think the way the planes behave when subjected to weather is greatly improved, but I guess that this is a result of aircraft physics improvements, not because that behaviour is somehow coded into the "canned" weather themes.In other words, I guess the flexibility of the FSX weather system is probably still there, but not accessible via GUI.