Hello

 

How am I meant to find out weather conditions on airfields?

I was landing at Popham and the nearest ATIS i could find was Fanrborough, so i tuned in and nothing happened.

I am very much a noob so my process is probably wrong, but this seemed weird to not get anything at all even said or written on the comms tab.

 

Thanks

 

Paul

2 hours ago, paulwilko10 said:

Hello

 

How am I meant to find out weather conditions on airfields?

I was landing at Popham and the nearest ATIS i could find was Fanrborough, so i tuned in and nothing happened.

I am very much a noob so my process is probably wrong, but this seemed weird to not get anything at all even said or written on the comms tab.

 

Thanks

 

Paul

ATIS is hit and miss. Some stations work, some dont... Actually most of them dont 😄

To get the weather is usually fetch the Metar from any old website. If your unsure what it means try to find it on a website that also decyphers it. And then you have to pray that MSFS is using the same runway that you thought it would be (in relation to the wond you found in the metar) 😄  

Edited October 22, 20205 yr by leprechaunlive
A millions typos

https://www.aviationweather.gov/metar/data
 

I gave up trying to tune an ATIS... unfortunately at the moment actual Wx in Sim is also a WIP.

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You can also set the approach runway when setting up your flight in the flight planner, and the sim will adjust the wind direction accordingly.

I think ATIS gets some stuff right now, like winds and altimeter setting usually, but the cloud reports are never right from what I see. The issue of trying to look at METARS is that MSFS rarely matches current real world co dictions in my experience.  
 

I certainly miss having a menu option through active sky in P3D to just tell me what the current weather is.

25 minutes ago, Highmike said:

You can also set the approach runway when setting up your flight in the flight planner, and the sim will adjust the wind direction accordingly.

Not in live weather right?

49 minutes ago, Highmike said:

You can also set the approach runway when setting up your flight in the flight planner, and the sim will adjust the wind direction accordingly.

I beg you pardon? 🙂

41 minutes ago, regis9 said:

I think ATIS gets some stuff right now, like winds and altimeter setting usually, but the cloud reports are never right from what I see. The issue of trying to look at METARS is that MSFS rarely matches current real world co dictions in my experience.  
 

I certainly miss having a menu option through active sky in P3D to just tell me what the current weather is.

You have with the unreal weather mod. Wich is what i use

One thing I would recommend is not using the suggested frequencies in the ATC window within the game, but rather looking up the ATIS frequency yourself on the web and manually tuning it in. I've found that this has worked on several occasions where the ATC window either had no frequency at all for the ATIS, or the frequency they did have didn't work.

Thank you all, will look into some of the suggestions.

The frequency one seems a sensible start

54 minutes ago, mtr75 said:

One thing I would recommend is not using the suggested frequencies in the ATC window within the game, but rather looking up the ATIS frequency yourself on the web and manually tuning it in. I've found that this has worked on several occasions where the ATC window either had no frequency at all for the ATIS, or the frequency they did have didn't work.

Yes, and the other way around is true too. Very strange. 

A year and a half later and you still can't bring up the ATIS...