New Orbx Weather addon

[Manny 1,293]

I noticed something odd.. No matter which preset I pick the Baro is at 2992. How come.. even during Thunderstorm... when I hit the "B" key the baro does not drop.

Could someone else check this please.

[Manny 1,293]

On 10/3/2020 at 1:52 PM, DJJose said:

Where do these presets go? I have the MS Store version. Thanks.

for me

cpgmm is My "User id"

C:\Users\cpgmm\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalState\Weather\Presets

[FrankR409 514]

5 minutes ago, Manny said:

I noticed something odd.. No matter which preset I pick the Baro is at 2992. How come.. even during Thunderstorm... when I hit the "B" key the baro does not drop.

Could someone else check this please.

Just a guess, but orbx is using the same hole that Rexx uses to inject weather.  You use the MSFS clear weather preset, and then orbx injects their stuff.  Problem with that is that the clear weather preset is a barometer of 29.92.

[CFIJose 5,485]

44 minutes ago, Manny said:

for me

cpgmm is My "User id"

C:\Users\cpgmm\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalState\Weather\Presets

That' where I added them initially, but they did not load properly when I loaded each one.

[BijanStudio 896]

i don't find the appeal here unless it has new types of clouds that's not available in the current sim.

[Glenn Fitzpatrick 3,798]

1 hour ago, BijanStudio said:

i don't find the appeal here unless it has new types of clouds that's not available in the current sim.

It is only useful if you fly a lot of VFR. If you are only ever at either FL300 or on an ILS final approach it would be pointless.

Good for VFR people though.

[dtrjones 356]

On 10/2/2020 at 5:18 PM, AnkH said:

Yu are aware that those are just a collection of presets? Nothing like real weather...

Thats what I thought but SoFly got in touch with me on YouTube and had the following to say.

@David Jones Whilst some of them can indeed be done yourself in the sim, many of them simply can't without spending plenty of time editing. You can't achieve things such as the storms, sandstroms or zero visibility without the customisation we have done.

 

[IamRoger 9]

I think where these presets are most useful is if you are a instrument pilot wanting to do pratice instrument approaches and missed approaches.  The current version of MSFS does let you dial in weather low enough for true IFR approaches and get weather at or below ILS and ILS CAT 3 approach minimums.  There are a couple presets that bypass the Asobo's available sliders numbers (they editing the text files to higher numbers than the current slider allow), allowing lower visibility.  For the first time I was able to do true instrument approaches down to about almost zero visibility.

[AnkH 2,266]

9 hours ago, dtrjones said:

Thats what I thought but SoFly got in touch with me on YouTube and had the following to say.

Still those are presets and not real weather. They are very good presets, for sure, and they are better than what you get by manually playing with the sliders, yet it is not real weather. If it leads to any confusion, with "real weather" I mean the weather you have outside in reality at a certain time. This is not what those presets are for. 

[CFIJose 5,485]

These presets are for simmers like me who don't want to bother setting up manual weather. Pick a weather theme and go.