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Yes.

But simulate one well?  Hmm, I have my doubts about that.  I have never flown into a 'cane in real life and do not plan to.  I'll let the hurricane hunter guys do that. 🙂   ActiveSky makes an attempt at simulating one, and does have the rotational wind thing, but doesn't really simulate something like banding very well.

I used to be a little devil in the old simulator multiplayer sessions I hosted, since I could set the weather.  If things got a little boring or the pilots were just trolling or goofing around, I would set the winds in the sessions to 100knots and watch their aircraft go tumbling like tumbleweeds.  They did not know what the heck was going on, until I told them about the joke.

When I was a business systems instructor doing training at a Holiday Inn in Springfield IL, most of my students were in their 40's and 50's, about four or five women.  There was one guy, younger than me, and like most of us here (because of our simming knowledge) a computer whiz.  My older students learned at a much slower pace than he did, and he would intimidate the women by saying "Come on, I want to get out of here, this is easy, hurry up".

As part of my job, at the end of each class module, I had to give a quiz to document for my employer and our client on site that I was teaching the students well.  So I decided to play a practical joke, like my wind joke above, on the know-it-all student (who did know a lot).

I got together with the women and told them beforehand what I was going to do, because they had complained to my client, his boss, so I told his boss how I would handle it and his boss, more evil than I was and a good buddy, even today 25 years later, gave me the green light to go forward with my evil plan.

The women finished their test in a lickety split time, because I gave them questions they could answer easily:

~How do you check in a guest

~How do you change a room status

~How do you clear a folio (the guest account)

And about seven more questions

To the student who knew everything my questions were as follows:

~How many bytes of memory does it take to hold a reservation in the queue

~How should the food and beverage interface be enabled after night audit

~How often should one defragment the system for improved performance

And I added a few questions he could answer

So the women aced the test and watched him struggle, and he literally started sweating, rubbing his forehead, as the women leered at him.

After I tormented the poor guy for what seemed like an eternity to him, I asked him if he was OK, everyone else had finished the test.

He responded "You never covered this in the course".  I responded "But you said you knew everything already"

The women bust out laughing as he blushed, then he laughed with us, saying I pranked him good.  He became arguably the best mentor on their hotel team after that, gently coaching the women and other employees who struggled.

I was single at the time and in the period of six months that followed, I found my fiance and got married, the girls there were crushing on me but a bit too young for my tastes, so they assumed I was not straight.

I was invited to come back to the hotel to install their new credit card interface after I married, they picked me up in a limo at the airport, my boss was jealous because he came onsite, a really cool guy who gave me three months paid time off for my honeymoon, he was not straight, go figure, which is why he was so cool, just his attitude and people skills, his name was Roger Custin.

When I checked in at the hotel (we always stayed on site with our clients, if they had an occupancy permit), I saw the girls whispering to each other, they recognized me, and I blushed because they were still being flirty with me.  I said "what are you whispering about" and they said "You really got married, you were a flaming bachelor, how did that happen?"

Because I traveled so much, my ex worked for an airline, like I eventually worked for American Airlines until I retired early....

Sorry I hijacked the thread, when I see a good question, I like to see threads staying alive...

JC

Run don’t walk to FSGRW.  I use FS9. I’ve used FS Meteo, AS6.5, and have used ASE for quite some time. It seem no matter what ASE never depicted actual weather.  Today I flew KMIA to MYGF to see ASE’s hurricane depiction. It was way off. So I downloaded FSGRW today. Flew MYGF to KFLL. Holy word not allowed!!!! I had clouds over 40,000’ Dark and full. Winds were accurate and weather was accurate.  It was incredible and blew ASE away. Looks like ASE is retired. 

Active Sky seems to do it the best, here is how Huricane Dorian looks currently in Active Sky:

5 hours ago, Matthew Kane said:

Active Sky seems to do it the best, here is how Huricane Dorian looks currently in Active Sky:

Looks like a hurricane to me!

Edited September 2, 20196 yr by reecemj

The aerial map  view in AS only shows a stock hurricane NASA image taken from space. However, the aircraft level wind in-sim data is pretty good and there is a distinct sunny eye with calm winds. The hurricane induced waves in P3d4 are downright scary, probably a bit too violent. A while back, I posted a video showing a flight into a hurricane with ASP4, but wherever it was hosted then is now deleted.

Flying a C-130 into the eye of Dorian with AS. Winds went from 135knts to 1knt.