Randomly-Generated Weather

[gsagostinho 16]

Hello all,

 

I am kind of new to X-Plane (recently converted from FSX), so please forgive me if the question is silly. Well, I love the option to Randomly-Generated Weather in X-Plane 10.25, but I have two problems using it:

 

- the visibility generated is always maximal, even if it is cloudy and rainy

- the clouds are always very very very high (it never generates clouds below ~18.000 ft or so)

 

Am I using it incorrectly? Is there a way to avoid these two issues?

 

Any answers or comments would be very appreciated!

 

Thanks a lot,

Gilberto 

[gsagostinho 16]

Anyone?

[airlinejets 709]

Hi Gilberto,

 

I'm not certain why you don't get clouds below 18k feet. Did you try getting real weather where you know what the cloud base is so you can compare?

[jcomm 6,086]

There are a couple of alternatives, to default weather generation which s METAR-based.

 

The latest I've heard about comes with the EFASS flight planner. Apparently it now includes a RW weather generator for XP10.

[Ianrivaldosmith 5,318]

Ye, it does and it's brilliant....!

[tonywob 4,779]

Gilberto, I've tried using the randomly generated weather also, but if never seems to work too well. The exact same problem is that it never seems to adds clouds below 18,000ft, and I always end up going into the weather settings and changing it myself. i.e. I generate random weather, and then alter the cloud layers or visibility.

 

 

 

The latest I've heard about comes with the EFASS flight planner. Apparently it now includes a RW weather generator for XP10.

 

http://froom.de/efass/. Unfortunately it seems like it's Windows only :(