10 minutes ago, zemez said:

I flew Dublin to Manchester today with TBM.
At least i had winds. 61kt/191degrees at FL180.
 

Apologies for the noob question, but how would I determine the windspeed at altitude?

It seems to be intermittent and an issue with the sim interpreting the data. First flights typically work right, but sometimes you have to load multiple themes, back to live, etc. Everyone needs to report it to zendesk to put the pressure on over it. I agree with everyone that says it's a core feature and needs to be ironed out.

The issue with whether it exactly matches the METAR is less concerning to me as long as their forecasting technology gets it close. That's actually more realistic. You know how often the conditions at an airport exactly match the METAR unless it's right at the same time as the report? Basically never. The winds are always changing, ceilings vacillate, etc.

 

Edited August 20, 20205 yr by bonchie

2 minutes ago, bonchie said:

The issue with whether it exactly matches the METAR is less concerning to me as long as their forecasting technology gets it close. That's actually more realistic. You know how often the conditions at an airport exactly match the METAR unless it's right at the same time as the report? Basically never. The winds are always changing, ceilings vacillate, etc.

 

I understand your point: but the problem is that from what I've seen, it's not about subtle differences. For example yesterday I took off from LIPB (Bolzano, Italy): the Metar showed wind calm, 29 degrees and CAVOK. Once I loaded the sim, wind was approximately 190°/9 knots and the temperature was 35 degrees... the only thing correct was the CAVOK which was correctly shown, but I guess it's casual 

13 minutes ago, DPSimulation said:

Apologies for the noob question, but how would I determine the windspeed at altitude?

I was flying, thats from my TBM screen. 

8 minutes ago, bonchie said:

The issue with whether it exactly matches the METAR is less concerning to me as long as their forecasting technology gets it close. That's actually more realistic. You know how often the conditions at an airport exactly match the METAR unless it's right at the same time as the report? Basically never. The winds are always changing, ceilings vacillate, etc.

 

A METAR is issued every 30 minutes (XX20 and XX50).

The wind speed in a METAR is based on the last 10 minutes (I think) average wind speed and actually the gust can be up to +9 knots whitout the Tower need to mentioned it to the pilot.

Same thing about the wind direction it could change +/- 5 degrees whitout the Tower need to mentioned it to the pilot, and it is also an average wind direction for the last 10 minutes.

So "Live Weather" is not really Live but instead it is more of "Actual METAR" 🙂

7 minutes ago, Jeeeno said:

I understand your point: but the problem is that from what I've seen, it's not about subtle differences. For example yesterday I took off from LIPB (Bolzano, Italy): the Metar showed wind calm, 29 degrees and CAVOK. Once I loaded the sim, wind was approximately 190°/9 knots and the temperature was 35 degrees... the only thing correct was the CAVOK which was correctly shown, but I guess it's casual 

Did you look at what Meteoblue was reporting at that time for Bozen?

I've yet to see the weather be accurate anywhere. Went to Florida where there was a 150x150 mile area of severe thunderstorms, there were some clouds, but absolutely zero rain. I couldn't even find any rain even when I went to multiple places (tried Canada, Florida, and Montana) --- nothing.

Other issue is the clouds are fringing and getting really pixelated looking at times. I've seen the clouds look ok some of the time, but at their worst they look really bad. So they have 2 issues to fix.

Clouds were not accurate either, there was some overcast around Florida, but most of it was broken up. In Montana, it was the wrong type of clouds + they were scattered when the real weather was overcast with rain.

Edited August 20, 20205 yr by SceneryFX

3 hours ago, jcomm said:

Merging model ( forecast ) data with rw observation will always be challenging. 

METAR cover around 8km in turn of the reference point of the aerodrome, so, really a short distance compared to the forecasts provided by weather models like those used by Meteoblue. Local phenomena can easily play their tricks, and a perfect merge is complex, but I believe ASOBO / Meteoblue can work together to fine tune it.

At least at the airfield the displayed data and physical parameters should really be coherent with the active METAR.

It's not challenging to show overcast with rain when the area is 400x400 miles wide like it was where I went in Canada. There were no big thunderstorms, it was just a cold wet rainy overcast day over a big part of the map. It's somewhat challenging to program in popcorn thunderstorms, because they are constantly changing, but it's not challenging when you have a giant consistent block of light rain.

Something else going on beyond their weather collection. They should have just used a simple triangulation technique and pattern movement from reporting stations based on changes over time, really not hard to program at all. The hard part is programming the clouds changing, not the actual weather tracking.

Edited August 20, 20205 yr by SceneryFX

25 minutes ago, Farlis said:

Did you look at what Meteoblue was reporting at that time for Bozen?

Nope. But honestly I don't care what Meteoblue was reporting: the fact is that the weather was not correct. However next time I will check!

5 hours ago, travelabroad said:

Would you please stop now? There's a lot of things which are working in the sim! I've been having a blast in the sim, and it's super immerseful. Yes, there's some bugs and things which isn't working at the moment, but please just stop being so melodramatic. 

To make is sound like the developers doesn't know what they're doing and to allude, that the sim is totally broken and unusable is extreme exaggeration.

Let me tell you: I purchased the software and I try to learn how to use it and make the best of it. But when I look at the massive negative reactions on this forum ... Are they all mistaken? I am rather naive and if I choose "Live weather", I go fly and think it IS in live weather. But other users test the software and say that even the weather engine is buggy. So, it's not me who has to stop. I just wonder after reading this massive negative posts and ask a legitimate question. Personally, I like what I see in the sim when flying GA planes. But for quality airliners, I hope that the framerates will stay acceptable.

There are some in here that are complaining about very tiny obscure details, so I can see their point in not wanting to hear it.

That said, there are valid complaints, as the main issues right now are weather, autopilot / IFR issues, and some graphical glitching with pixelation (which hurts immersion). 

I guess installer issues could be another, but the other stuff is a bigger deal to me, since re-installing it is something I'd do rarely.

 

Edited August 20, 20205 yr by SceneryFX

57 minutes ago, DPSimulation said:

Apologies for the noob question, but how would I determine the windspeed at altitude?

Another noobie question here:

Does the weather in the sim even match the current metar information being broadcast to ATIS and used by the live weather feature in the sim? That's really all I care about. If the forecast tells me it's windy at 5,000 feet, is it really windy at 5,000 feet.

My only beef about weather: Why does it take 50 mph winds to make the water choppy?

I cannot even get it to show rain when the area was raining over 400x400 miles, and I flew dead center out of the middle of the giant storm. I flew for an hour without a single raindrop, three different places had that issue.

So for some of us, it is completely broken, not sure I even believe the people saying the clouds looked exactly like when they looked out their window (come on, it's not even raining over a 400 mile area that was supposed to be).

 

It has been really hit or miss for me.  At one point the weather around my house changed from clear and sunny to dark, heavy clouds, and FS modeled this really well.

I wanted to check out some thunderstorms, so I looked and the area around Florida and the Bahamas was active (as you'd expect), but I go down there and took off at Freeport which had a big old t-storm right on top of it according to real weather radar, but I just got puffy clouds.  The weather radar showed some small cells, but I couldn't get a drop of rain to hit the windshield or a bit of turbulence.  You'd think August in that area in the afternoon would be active for sure.  

I tinkered around with the settings while parked in the TBM at EDAH Heringsdorf in Germany. In-sim weather matched conditions reported perfectly. 

Did the same this morning while parked at Edinburgh EGPH. Ditto.