Hey fellows, I have an issue when I'm doing performing a landing, weather!!!, specially speaking about wind speed, makes the plane don´t slow the speed properly, according speed programmed in FMC, it seems takes too hard to decrease the speed and sometimes if you see the speed tape, you see increase instead of decrease, but every thing goes normally when I load the default weather schemes, the speed slow down correctly, this issue happen if I use real FSX weather and FSWX Lite.

 

If you can recommend a fine weather program I would grateful.

 

Best regards

 

PD: sorry for my english, not native speaking person.

ActiveSky 2012 and a registered version of FSUIPC for wind smoothing and you'll be golden.

Hi Nibaldo,

 

I think you have a problem with the speeds in the descents, if I understood you right. Ofcourse the FMC can't know the wind and so it can't compensate it, and this will result in higher speeds than calculated by the FMC.

However, the FMC can compensate for wind if you feed it with data. There is a so called "Descent Forecast"-page in the FMC. In this page you are able to enter altitudes and the wind speed / wind direction at that altitude. If you fly at 30000 feet, for instance you can enter wind data for FL250, FL180 and 9000 ft. If you enter accurate data, you will help the FMC a lot and you will see less "overspeeding".

However, the problem always is, where to get the data from. When you use FSX real weather option within FSX, it is difficult to get accurate data (and realistic weather). There are diffrent things you can do:

--If you don't want to buy a weather program, I can highly reccomend FSRealWX. It is pretty up to date, easy to use and it can create beautiful weather coditions. It also allows you to get wind data. You can enter your destination airport and then you can see a list full of wind-/ temperature- and other metrologicall aspect-data. If you read out the wind speeds from your destination airport and enter them into the FMC you will see an improvement in your descents.

--If you want to buy a weather programm, I can highly reccomend Active Sky 2012. It is expensive, but it is worth it. It also allows you to read out wind data at diffrent altitudes, which you can input into the FMC then. However it has some other nice functions too.

 

I would reccomend that you try FSRealWX first, and if you are not satisfied you can always buy Active Sky 2012 later on.

 

Best regards,

 

Jonathan

 

EDIT:

 

Hi,

 

ActiveSky 2012 and a registered version of FSUIPC for wind smoothing and you'll be golden.

 

With "Direct Weather Control" enabled inside AS2012 you are fine without FSUIPC. No need to spend additional money. :wink:

 

Best regards,

 

Jonathan

FSUIPC is a must in my opinion. It does to much not to have and even with DWC I still use wind smoothing otherwise I'll get the occasional drastic wind shift.

Thanks fellows, so I'm gonna test first FSREALWX, as you recommended me, thanks a lot !!!

 

"Direct Weather Control" enabled inside AS2012 you are fine without FSUIPC.

 

 

FSUIPC is still a good idea, in my opinion. I still had erratic wind behaviour using AS2012, but the wind smoothing in FSUIPC cured it.

Hi,

 

FSUIPC is still a good idea, in my opinion. I still had erratic wind behaviour using AS2012, but the wind smoothing in FSUIPC cured it.

 

Okay, I didn't felt the need for FSUIPC personally, as compared to the default weather engine, AS2012 alone helps alot. ;)

AS2012 alone helps alot.

 

The great thing I find with AS2012 is it provides the descent forecasts. It's really helped getting away from the "drag required" annuniciation from the FMC.