What setting do most people use to fly with the weather radar?  The auto mode?  I had been looking for a good reference material on the weather radar operation, if anyone has a good reference, please let me know.  

 

Thanks in advance.

PMDG recommends auto for tilt control and I have stuck with that.  As for references, I personally don't think the ASN WXR is at the level of fidelity yet where good reference material would be of much use. They might get there but not yet, it's basically just eye candy for now but they are just getting started.

 

Google 'aircraft weather radar' and you'll get a lot of good links on how to use this tool.

Hi,

 

I also use auto tilt most of the time except when I'm in the middle of patches of thunderstorms and try to get my way through without injuring the crew and passengers with turbulences. 

I don't think it is just eye candy though it must not be yet at the same level as the rest of the plane.

 

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I use WX+T Auto mode. The +T is for turbulence possibility, which shows up pink.

I don't think it is just eye candy though it must not be yet at the same level as the rest of the plane.

When I first installed WXR I would deviate around thunderstorms. I decided to fly right thru them to see what would happen. Nothing. The T7 handled it without skipping a beat. It's eye candy.

When I first installed WXR I would deviate around thunderstorms. I decided to fly right thru them to see what would happen. Nothing. The T7 handled it without skipping a beat. It's eye candy.

Try some storms around Singapore - they toss even the T7 around a bit. 

When I first installed WXR I would deviate around thunderstorms. I decided to fly right thru them to see what would happen. Nothing. The T7 handled it without skipping a beat. It's eye candy.

Are you using ASN? Only ASN can give accurate radar depiction. 

Have also a  look here 

 

http://www.rockwellcollins.com/~/media/Files/Unsecure/Products/Product%20Brochures/Radar%20and%20Surveillance/Weather%20Radar/WXR-2100/MultiScan%20ThreatTrack%20Quick%20Reference%20Guide%20-%20Boeing.aspx

 

 

Michael Moe

When I first installed WXR I would deviate around thunderstorms. I decided to fly right thru them to see what would happen. Nothing. The T7 handled it without skipping a beat. It's eye candy.

 

I'm using ASN and found out the weather radar can help avoiding the more severe turbulence areas in which the T7 is sometimes "harlem shaked"  . It makes the flight much more realistic than flying straight forward along the route without taking care of the weather.

 

If you use ASN, maybe your settings are very low?

I personally use the weather radar in auto modo +T and flying mostly in Asia above all lately landing in kuala lumpur or Singapore the plane flying into the red zone shakes a lot and loose altitude  and the worse thing is that i landed with a -950 feet cause to a microburst thatsmashed the plane on the runway on kl.

I don't know about the PMDG 777 (Jumbo driver intruding here), but I general I would say that just using AUTO mode is unlikely to give you the full picture. Manual tilt and gain adjustment is really the only way to properly assess the structure and intensity of cells.

 

Airbus has some useful reading here: http://www.airbus.com/fileadmin/media_gallery/files/safety_library_items/AirbusSafetyLib_-FLT_OPS-ADV_WX-SEQ07.pdf

When I first installed WXR I would deviate around thunderstorms. I decided to fly right thru them to see what would happen. Nothing. The T7 handled it without skipping a beat. It's eye candy.

 

Careful here. Red returns mean heavy precip. Not turbulence. If you flew through magenta you should get a decent jolt at least occasionally. It's entirely possible to see what looks like the worst storm alive on radar actually turn out to be a docile deluge (provided there isn't magenta on the display). Might not be often, but it's possible.

 

While (heavy return) precip and turbulence often go hand in hand, I could also find you many an April day in the DC area where you're seeing red returns (or at least yellow) and the air is completely still.

 

I've gotten positively rocked with a windshear warning on final during testing of SP1 flying into BWI. Might just be your settings in ASN/FSUIPC if you've flown through magenta returns and you saw nothing.

The more flying on runway heading into a magenta area with apropeller plane i lost the controll and crashed as the speed dropped started to make stall and due to altitude i was not able to get the plane back. So i wouldnt say it is an eye candy. Of course then if ur simulator is set without damages to the aircrafts it is easier to cross an heavy turbolenced and stormy area as the stress doesnt damage the plane. If u turn the option that stress can damage the plane in FSX u will see that the increase and decrease of the speed and oversspeed of the plne due to the turbolence long going cause a crash of the plane.

Try some storms around Singapore - they toss even the T7 around a bit.

There were thunderstorms on both departure and arrival at WSSS on this flight http://forum.avsim.net/topic/456886-no-runs-no-drips-no-errors/.

 

 

Are you using ASN? Only ASN can give accurate radar depiction.

Yes.

 

 

I'm using ASN and found out the weather radar can help avoiding the more severe turbulence areas in which the T7 is sometimes "harlem shaked"  . It makes the flight much more realistic than flying straight forward along the route without taking care of the weather.

 

If you use ASN, maybe your settings are very low?

I use ASN and the settings are not low except for wake turbulence which is set to 0.

 

 

Careful here.

I am not saying there is no turbulence. There is but it only causes minor variations in speed and altitude and some wing flex.

I flew an approach into KMCO, where there was a ton of magenta ahead of me. The 777 encountered severe windshear and I chose to go around. So for me, the ASN/ PMDG 777 weather radar worked great.

 

Robert Marton