Can the Cessna G1000 Display Weather Radar?

[David Mills 4,754]

Can the Cessna G1000 Display Weather Radar?

[Bert Pieke 7,584]

Yes, but how useful it is, I cannot say.

On the MFD, click the Map softkey (or similar) to toggle..

[sd_flyer 6,040]

There are two radars available:

NEXARD which is composite satellite  data available via GPS key

Actual WX radar available via DISPLAY key 

[vgbaron 3,612]

I guess what would come to my mind is if the REAL weather is inaccurate much of the time whaty to expect from weather radar.  

[sd_flyer 6,040]

24 minutes ago, vgbaron said:

I guess what would come to my mind is if the REAL weather is inaccurate much of the time whaty to expect from weather radar.  

Actually it doesn't matter if live weather is accurate or no. MSFS WX radar reads exactly what you see from cockpit window. Which in my opinion is a big plus for 3rd party developers.

Now, for some reason actual WX radar is not accessible in TBM only nexard, which is not physical radar. Many airplanes like G36 don't have WX radar on board but you can  still access it in G1000 menu. In contrast, King Air doesn't have physical WX radar but it's not accessible at all. At least I couldn't figure out how to acmes it

By the war realistically so called "nexard" should have had lag around 15 minute as data collected from satellites, composed  and then stream to airplanes.Those kind of radars considered for situation awareness but not sufficient like physical radar produce immediate snapshot of current weather