PFPX and PMDG 777 Winds

[Rey 11]

http://forum.avsim.net/topic/418812-wind-data-request-fails/

If this doesn't work try this: Simply type the route name again to the 6R key. So Raven in your case, just type EGKKEHAM02 and click the request key.

[scandinavian13 5,192]

...and I have a feeling this is why the feature was supposed to be kept quiet until the various developers created an exportable .wx file.

[VLJ510 16]

Thank guys, got it working, minor mistake on my part.

[JK23 0]

After a few hours of head scratching and running to the same issues, saving the ".wx" file without any numbers IE: VIDPZBAA.wx and it has been fixed since.

[Remys 4]

People at PFPX with the new update 1.07 have fixed the wind aloft it is not approximately very near to the data that we're getting in the flight plan.

 

as for the temperature it is far from being accurate. i get - 52 with pfpx lets say at FL360 and in PMDG -20 this should be fixed in the next update

[Howell 7]

Maybe I missed it, but you are to save the file as All Files under Save as type and not .txt

[JRBarrett 3,047]

 

as for the temperature it is far from being accurate. i get - 52 with pfpx lets say at FL360 and in PMDG -20 this should be fixed in the next update

There is nothing that needs fixing. The temperature is accurate. The temperature PFPX reports is the actual STATIC air temperature at FL360, and -52 is just about right for that altitude. This is the temperature you would measure if you sent a thermometer up to FL360 in a slowly moving vehicle, like a weather balloon.

 

The temperature that you see on the PMDG CAS screen is called TAT. (Total Air Temperature). TAT is always considerably warmer than the actual static air temperature. TAT is the temperature on the skin of the airplane, and it is warmer because of a combination of compression and friction caused by the fact that the aircraft is moving through the air at over 450 knots.

 

A TAT of -20 would be about right for an actual Static air temp of -52, at the speed the NGX or 777 travels at that altitude.

 

In the PMDG aircraft, you can see the actual Static air temperature by pressing the PROG button on the FMS, and viewing page 2 (press the NEXT button, after pressing PROG.

 

A static air temp of -20C at FL360 would be physically impossible... Maybe -30 under very unusual conditions, but typically temps up that high will be somewhere between -45 and -60, depending on what latitude you are flying at.

[vladohd 1]

hello, i just had this problem, in my case, i forgot to load flight plan to active sky, since i loaded it, it works great again