August 16, 20169 yr Planned for June, got shutdown only today, at 1800 Zhttp://www.nws.noaa.gov/dm-cgi-bin/c...n=DM051602.txt May affect some add-ons for FSX, X-Plane and other flight simulators. Even SkyVector.com was apparently caught... ( ? ) There are alternatives though... Flying gliders since 1980 Flightsimming since 1992 AMD Ryzen 5600x, 32GB RAM, GPU Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti 8 GB, 1 TB and 500 GB nvme2 SSD drives, HP 27" 60Hz LED monitor @ 1920x1080, T16000, Hotas from old X52 Pro, Saitek Combat Rudder Pro (2010 model)
August 16, 20169 yr Commercial Member Thank you for the info, realized that some of my personal projects were affected. Sadly, it seems like there are no direct replacements for this service. It makes raw METARS very hard to obtain now... Keven Menard Technical Director, //42.
August 18, 20169 yr What kind of weather products did they offer ? AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D, RTX 4080S, Ram - 32GB, 32" 4K Monitor, WIN 11. Eric Escobar
August 18, 20169 yr Commercial Member What kind of weather products did they offer ? RAW text METARS and TAFS.... really useful for programming as they provide direct data Keven Menard Technical Director, //42.
August 18, 20169 yr Author There's an alternative site ( https ) and after a few hours the old site was up again :-) At least my ELITE and PSX METARs are already being correctly downloaded :-))) Flying gliders since 1980 Flightsimming since 1992 AMD Ryzen 5600x, 32GB RAM, GPU Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti 8 GB, 1 TB and 500 GB nvme2 SSD drives, HP 27" 60Hz LED monitor @ 1920x1080, T16000, Hotas from old X52 Pro, Saitek Combat Rudder Pro (2010 model)
August 18, 20169 yr Commercial Member There's an alternative site ( https ) and after a few hours the old site was up again What alternative site? Keven Menard Technical Director, //42.
August 18, 20169 yr I just got mine from http://www.aviationweather.gov/metar ckyliu, proud supporter of ViaIntercity.com. i5 12400F, 32GB, RTX4070, more in "About me" on my profile.
August 18, 20169 yr Author That one! Sorry for the late reply Keven. Anyway, they have put the old site back up 2 days ago. You should be able to D/L again from there, but we just don't know for how long :-/ Flying gliders since 1980 Flightsimming since 1992 AMD Ryzen 5600x, 32GB RAM, GPU Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti 8 GB, 1 TB and 500 GB nvme2 SSD drives, HP 27" 60Hz LED monitor @ 1920x1080, T16000, Hotas from old X52 Pro, Saitek Combat Rudder Pro (2010 model)
August 18, 20169 yr Moderator You could also try AvnWx... it's a really good website with RL METAR, TAF & PIREPS (when a Pilot posts one). www.avnwx.com Alan :smile:
August 23, 20169 yr This is an issue for SkyMaxx Pro in X-Plane, as it's placing the clouds with the NOAA data when you use RWC. They seem to be aware of it: http://forums.x-pilot.com/forums/topic/11426-rwc-is-not-working-atm-metar-download-fails/ - Currently giving X-Plane 12.10 a spin on Shadow PC. 10 years with X-Plane now, since 10.20
August 24, 20169 yr Author http://www.nws.noaa.gov/os/notification/tin14-55ncep_ftp.txt Flying gliders since 1980 Flightsimming since 1992 AMD Ryzen 5600x, 32GB RAM, GPU Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti 8 GB, 1 TB and 500 GB nvme2 SSD drives, HP 27" 60Hz LED monitor @ 1920x1080, T16000, Hotas from old X52 Pro, Saitek Combat Rudder Pro (2010 model)
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