June 20, 201213 yr Preparing for Alaska, and after reading the announcement regarding updates/additional features at MS FLIGHT's site, I noticed no mention to a couple of features I had requested, namely those related to weather modeliing. In Hawaii we have ISA atmosphere. I was never able to find out what temperature we get during day/dusk/night/dawn or between Seasons or Weather themes, but the pressure is ISA. If this is mantained in Alaska, which at least regarding temperature I don't believe it will because they may include low temperatures together with snow precipitation, there is really no big problem with it because the truth is that while many simulators do allow for temp/pressure/visibility and in some cases even dew point (fs9, fsx) configuration, none have humidity, and there is really no relationship being used between these variables to determine if clouds form, what type of clouds, visibility, precipitation as a function of temp, pressure and dew point, etc... so, the truth is that we can still live with ISA pressure, although it would be great to have icing in Alaska :-) Flying gliders since 1980 Flightsimming since 1992 AMD Ryzen 5600x, 32GB RAM, GPU Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti 8 GB, 1 TB and 500 GB nvme2 SSD drives, HP 27" 60Hz LED monitor @ 1920x1080, T16000, Hotas from old X52 Pro, Saitek Combat Rudder Pro (2010 model)
June 20, 201213 yr Author I wonder if they will model icing for Alaska! Yes, this would be... N Ice :-) Flying gliders since 1980 Flightsimming since 1992 AMD Ryzen 5600x, 32GB RAM, GPU Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti 8 GB, 1 TB and 500 GB nvme2 SSD drives, HP 27" 60Hz LED monitor @ 1920x1080, T16000, Hotas from old X52 Pro, Saitek Combat Rudder Pro (2010 model)
June 20, 201213 yr You can find the ambient temp by checking your oil temp and cylinder head temp gauges with the aircraft cold and dark.
June 20, 201213 yr Author You can find the ambient temp by checking your oil temp and cylinder head temp gauges with the aircraft cold and dark. True, but too difficult, and I really can't glimpse any differences other than those caused by altitude... Flying gliders since 1980 Flightsimming since 1992 AMD Ryzen 5600x, 32GB RAM, GPU Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti 8 GB, 1 TB and 500 GB nvme2 SSD drives, HP 27" 60Hz LED monitor @ 1920x1080, T16000, Hotas from old X52 Pro, Saitek Combat Rudder Pro (2010 model)
June 20, 201213 yr Too difficult? How were you wanting to find the temperature, other than looking at a gauge? But anyway, for now, the temp doesn't vary except with altitude.
June 20, 201213 yr Author Too difficult? It's rounded... I would prefer to have a thermometer :-) Flying gliders since 1980 Flightsimming since 1992 AMD Ryzen 5600x, 32GB RAM, GPU Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti 8 GB, 1 TB and 500 GB nvme2 SSD drives, HP 27" 60Hz LED monitor @ 1920x1080, T16000, Hotas from old X52 Pro, Saitek Combat Rudder Pro (2010 model)
June 20, 201213 yr It's rounded... I would prefer to have a thermometer :-) I wish the thermometer in the Maule's right door would work. :mad: There's no place like this place, so this must be the place.
June 20, 201213 yr I wish the thermometer in the Maule's right door would work. :mad: It probably doesn't work now because it would never move, except to drop slowly as you climb. If they ever move away from "standard atmosphere" then it might get fixed.
June 20, 201213 yr Author I believe they will, at least to be consistent with some of the Weather themes for Alaska.... The messages issued while we wait for a flight to load also mention operations at higher temperatures/altitudes, so, I believe sooner or later, maybe now for the low temps, and when some AFRICA DLC get's released for the higher ones, we will get non-ISA temperatures ;-) Flying gliders since 1980 Flightsimming since 1992 AMD Ryzen 5600x, 32GB RAM, GPU Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti 8 GB, 1 TB and 500 GB nvme2 SSD drives, HP 27" 60Hz LED monitor @ 1920x1080, T16000, Hotas from old X52 Pro, Saitek Combat Rudder Pro (2010 model)
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