I'm not having much success getting believable returns on the weather radar.  I use ASN.  I think that I'm reasonably understanding of the basics of succesfully using a weather radar and the methods of choosing the correct tilt.

 

The problem is that the radar is typically cluttered with a sea of reds, yellows, and greens that are definitely not ground return, and most certainly don't match the actual weather.  I wish that I had a screenshot to show, but I don't.  An example from the last flight is that I was climbing with the nose up about 10 degrees, and even with the wx radar pointed up +5 to +10 degrees, it was indicating there were massive thunderstorms up ahead.  Aside from some non-menacing clouds ahead and below, and maybe some light precipitation here and there,  there was just nothing out there, certainly the empty blue sky in the direction of the tilt contained nothing that was being indicated by the radar.   There is very little correlation I can see between the Majestic weather radar and what is known to be true from Active Sky's own Nexrad-like picture of the precipitation.  Even the venerable and relatively innacurate Reality XP weather radar that I have on another plane seems to be providing a more plausible picture.

 

To be honest, I'm not getting plausible returns even just using the stock FSX weather.  I've seen another post on the Majestic forum on the subject in which the only advice was to get educated about weather radars, and that it must be user error, but I think I'm past that point, and I'm not entirely convinced that I'm using it incorrectly, although of course that's still possible.

 

I'm a relative newby on this plane, so if anybody has any advice on what could be going on, or if anybody is seeing similar results that I am could weigh in, I would appreciate it.   I don't know if it's related or not, but I'm also frequently getting icing on the wings in clear air situtations that I would not have guessed were icing conditions.

To be honest, the weather radar included is just eye candy, what it shows you is nothing more than a guesstimate. Some people get reasonable returns using ASN, others get gibberish.

To be honest, the weather radar included is just eye candy, what it shows you is nothing more than a guesstimate. Some people get reasonable returns using ASN, others get gibberish.

 

Majestic definitely made claims to the fact that if the staions within FSX had the correct weather data, then their wx would work.  That might not have been the case with AS 2012 using global direct weather mode, but with ASN, those "compromise" modes are a thing of the past.  Even the built in FSX ATIS reports the correct weather for the stations now with ASN, so we know that those FSX stations have a correct weather picture.  It would be interesting to hear from those who are claiming that they are geting good wx radar returns, so we can figure out the secret of their success.

Hi all,

 

here is a picture I took last week for my blog. To me it looks fairly correct, though I took the picture more or less by chance than to test the WX radar. Consequently, I'm not saying that it works, neither am I claiming that it does not work. All I'm saying is that it "looks kinda right".

 

The weather program, by the way, is the freeware FSRealWX.

 

Regards

Oliver

 

 

 

Oliver Branaschky

"The Weather Radar can work with both the FSX Real Weather, and the Weather Environment addons capable of setting the per-station weather."  (Q400 product description)

 

you have to make sure that the ASN sets real weather per station and not globally.

The very best solution to get a working weather radar would be the integration of the ASN weather radar. Just like they did it with the iFly 737: http://www.hifitechinc.com/news/74-ifly-737-asn-radar.

 

Would be great if the Majestic team would consider this :smile:

 

Greetings

Tim

Unless the radar is integrated with ASN data you will not get real data - just the same sort of presentation that you see in the RXP WX500 which is a fair approximation. ASN gives real rain data that shows properly on an ASN integrated radar.

 

DJ

ASN gives real rain data that shows properly on an ASN integrated radar.

And they have integrated the ASN weather radar into the ND of the 737.

 

Active Sky has offered assistance to every developer who wants to do the same. That's why I hope to see the ASN radar in the Q400 someday :smile:

 

Greetings

Tim

"The Weather Radar can work with both the FSX Real Weather, and the Weather Environment addons capable of setting the per-station weather."  (Q400 product description)

 

you have to make sure that the ASN sets real weather per station and not globally.

 

But Samdim, I think that's what ASN is doing.  In ASN's predecessors, you had several different modes to choose from, some which set weather globally, but offerred the best presentation.  But, with ASN, I believe that's different now.  It's my understanding that in ASN the weather is indeed set locally, per-station.  I don't know this for a fact, but one thing to note is that with ASN, even the built-in FSX ATIS reports the correct conditions, which leads me to believe that it is setting the weather on a per-station basis.   Is there a known incompatibility with ASN and the Q400, or am I possibly missing a setting somewhere?

Hello,

 

I would be glad to have more informations about the problem reported here. Because I have exactly the same symptoms with Q400 and ASN. I did never saw any believable looking returns as shown by Oliver above...and as KingGhidorah did, I also know how to set the wx radar...

 

Hope Majestic can help here,

 

I will try on their forum also,

 

Best regards,

 

Pierre