Hello!

 

 

I've seen some other posts on this matter, although none that I have seen have fully answered the question, or mine specifically. Basically, the real world weather (updating every fifteen minutes) isn't real time, or any time. When flying at the same time it was in the RW in FSX, the altimeter, winds, etc... were all off (having checked with PFPX, Jeppesen and one other website for the METAR). It makes it difficult to plan for weather when I can't access the mystery FSX weather outside of the sim.

 

 

Does anyone know how to fix this? Perhaps in the settings somehow? Or can I export the PFPX weather?

 

 

Thanks!

 

 

-Derek

Opus fsx

As of Saturday afternoon the FSX Real Weather was exactly the same as the weather in AS 2012. Based on this one comparison, FSX Real Weather is working just fine.

Is the offset really that big, Derek? And is it based on the time or does the inbuilt feature give you a poor weather rendition in general?

 

The time offset may be more or less the same among external programs using real-time data collection of any kind. None of those programs should introduce more than a few minutes of lag. The only real downside of some offerings could be a complete/partial data outage for certain locations or faulty processed raw data, leading to funny temps and things. But that's rare from my experience.

 

Well, maybe you can try some external freeware program or a demo from a payware dev to check if things improve. PFPX reads almost all payware programs directly from their files, so you can plan exactly what later gets injected into FSX. :smile:

Is the offset really that big, Derek? And is it based on the time or does the inbuilt feature give you a poor weather rendition in general?

 

The time offset may be more or less the same among external programs using real-time data collection of any kind. None of those programs should introduce more than a few minutes of lag. The only real downside of some offerings could be a complete/partial data outage for certain locations or faulty processed raw data, leading to funny temps and things. But that's rare from my experience.

 

Well, maybe you can try some external freeware program or a demo from a payware dev to check if things improve. PFPX reads almost all payware programs directly from their files, so you can plan exactly what later gets injected into FSX. :smile:

 

OK - I'll take a more in depth look at the PFPX weather and some external programs.

 

Thanks for your help!