1 hour ago, wthomas33065 said:

Did you choose the Live Weather (METAR) setting when setting up your flight?  That's the profile you use.

No, I hadn't. I'll give it a go, thanks.

1 hour ago, DJJose said:

V 1.6 is now the latest:

https://unrealweather.blogspot.com/

Good news.  I'll have to give it a go.  I like the proposed fixes.  The high altitude winds aloft were a bit wonky.  I get that it's randomized, but the gusts were just blowing my AC all over the place.  I had to disable the high altitude ones to keep my PAX from losing their lunch.  Also, the transitions were a little jarring so we'll see if that is a little more natural.  I've set mine to update every 10 minutes with a 5 minute transition period.  We'll see how that works.  

The great thing is that the free METAR key you get from AVWX allows 4000 METAR reports a day.   Even if you set the application to update every minute, and ran the sim for 24 straight hours, you'll still only blow through 1440 METAR's a day.   You'd have to update the Metar greater than twice a minute for 24 hours a day  before you began reaching that threshold.

It's a great little app, reminds me of the update every 15 minute METAR that FSX used to have, only it is much more powerful.  It's still not as dynamic as the actual "live weather" setting, but it does appear, at least in my experience to be a bit more accurate.  Especially concerning lightning.

Fantastic work, and a great alternative to live weather.  Plus it is really configurable, so that is nice. 

Five useful posts in 6 pages, tops. Getting to be the norm.

20 minutes ago, mtr75 said:

Five useful posts in 6 pages, tops. Getting to be the norm.

You counted them. LOL

I was night flying the A320 at FL360, and had to close it since the constant lightning in partly cloudy skies was too stupid. No, I don't want static weather either. How much longer is it going to take to fix such a ridiculous bug? Thank God we have great people in the community that come up with workarounds to the constant dumb bugs caused by the patches from Microsoft and Asobo. I'm giving this METAR program a go 👌

Edited October 22, 20205 yr by NightOfDreams

Who in the heck in the world enjoys night flying? seriously

12 minutes ago, jbdbow1970 said:

Who in the heck in the world enjoys night flying? seriously

Instead of only flying daytime or nighttime, I alternate.

Edited October 22, 20205 yr by NightOfDreams

The stupid lightning is back tonight over Hilton Head, SC in partly cloudy skies. Fortunately I have the Unrealweather METAR program so I got rid of it.

I enjoy everything else about Live Weather except for this nonsensical issue. How much longer 'til it's fixed???

Edited November 2, 20205 yr by NightOfDreams

The developers are not seeing the issue. 

Flying from Mexico to Cuba... the whole way lightning... pretty much anywhere down there.. constant lightning. 

On 10/13/2020 at 10:15 AM, roi1862 said:

I had enough of this !!!

agreed.   we need to send em a feedback report at zendesk.  Not sure why they changed it as they have though

49 minutes ago, Isaiah53six said:

agreed.   we need to send em a feedback report at zendesk.  Not sure why they changed it as they have though

The previous complaint was that live weather never generated any lightning at all.

Now it's all over the place.  I live in south florida, so I'm used to "clear skies" lightning where there's not that many clouds in the sky and you have thunderstorms, but where most people have issues with the lightning is that it's coming from the wrong types of clouds, and we seem to always see the "fork".  I know in south florida, I rarely see the actual fork, especially in cloud to cloud lightning.  

So there's still some tweaks to be had.  So until then Unreal Weather (Metar) is my go to.

2 hours ago, wthomas33065 said:

The previous complaint was that live weather never generated any lightning at all.

 

ty, I must've misread it and mistook it for a lighting issue

Edited November 2, 20205 yr by Isaiah53six

400nm flight across Europe, 400nm of constant lightning. This nothing more than a bad joke. I suggest Microsoft should take over this one and try to save Asobo's people who can't seem to fix it.