August 9, 200421 yr After selecting real weather with 15 minute updates, the accompanying description always says 50 miles visibility. Does anyone else notice this? Howard Jetline Systems: Intel 8th Gen Core i7 8700K (4.8GHz Overclock); GTX 1080 Ti; LG Curved UltraWide 3440x1440 Monitor .
August 9, 200421 yr Can you be more specific? FS downloads weather for ~5000 weather stations around the world. Are you talking about the global description or for a particular station? To find out, select the User Defined Weather option and click the button. From the next screen you can click on weather stations on the map and look at settings for each one.
August 9, 200421 yr hi howard, i talked to some people at a local weather station about the same thing not long ago. they said their radar is locked at 10 miles if i remember correctly. they said VFR is 10 miles so if the visiblity was beyond that it wouldn't show up. it would only show 10 miles even if it was 20 or more. it would show if it was less than 10. like if 6 or 8 miles, it would show that but not more than 10 even if it is. hope that helps. william
August 10, 200421 yr Also, what version are you running? I think FS2002 treated 10nm as Unlimited. FS2004 should have fixed this.
August 10, 200421 yr i'm running 2004. i guess maybe FS2004 is assuming 10 miles as unlimited also and the program may sort of default to 50 miles when it sees the radar saying 10 miles. the guy i talked with said he had no idea what the visibility really was at the time. said it could be 20, 50 or even 100 miles. he did say he had seen close to 100 miles when flying one time. guess you can set your own preference to what you want it to be if it's over 10 miles. william
August 11, 200421 yr A word about the METAR reports: Anything over 6 statute miles is often reported as P6SM in METARs when the reporting station is operated by a ASOS, AWOS-2, or AWOS-3. This just means visiblity is +6 statute miles, or greater than 6 miles. No visibility is reported at stations that are AWOS-A or AWOS-1. By the way, if you were to look at the REMARKS section of a METAR and you see A02 or A03, this means the station is an AWOS-2 or AWOS-3, respectively.Also, ASOS usually has a human weather observer that sometimes amends the automated METAR reports before they are sent out.
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