I just need the lightening to STOP

Edited November 9, 20205 yr by sidfadc

19 minutes ago, sidfadc said:

I just need the lightening to STOP

Right. Anywhere in the Caribbean all the time there is lightning. Other places too. It is SUPER annoying. 

Edited November 9, 20205 yr by jpe828

5 hours ago, Farlis said:

Use Zendesk and ask them.

Oh my.  How many times?  Despite the complaints it not only is not high on the priority list.  The response per updates seems to indicate they do not understand the issue(s).  The overcooked lightening and thunder was in the same vein.

4 hours ago, sidfadc said:

I just need the lightening to STOP

My lightening issue appears for the time being to have abated.  Makes me wonder if it is triggered by temperatures.  I have over the past week been in three rainy environments with no lightening and thunder.  Prior to that I was inundated by it when in or near rain, even though metars, pireps, and web weather radar were reporting or showing was showing tops at less than 10,000 ft.  Now it has cooled off where I have been.  In the presence of rain or rain showers the change in temps is all I can identify.  Perhaps that is why those flying in the tropics are still encountering it.

1 hour ago, fppilot said:

Oh my.  How many times?  Despite the complaints it not only is not high on the priority list.  The response per updates seems to indicate they do not understand the issue(s).  The overcooked lightening and thunder was in the same vein.

The live weather has been an issue since day one of Alpha testing. They may fix it someday but apparently it's a tough nut to crack.

I took off from KOPF yesterday and it was raining heavily, but once up in the thunderstorms I didn't see it again until after I landed at RSW, nothing during the approach which was in thunderstorms. On another flight elsewhere I was at 33,000' and getting lightning with few clouds. Caught this one by luck.

28 minutes ago, mwilk said:

but apparently it's a tough nut to crack.

No. The tough nut to crack are the priorities of the development team.

3 hours ago, fppilot said:

Oh my.  How many times?  Despite the complaints it not only is not high on the priority list. 

I'm with you there.  I used to log every flight with incorrect weather on Zendesk (so pretty much every flight) but it got tiresome...I feel like I've made my point as best I can, now it's in their hands.

If only weather was the only stuff that will take months / years to fix in this sim 😕

I honestly lost 80% of my initial enthusiasm, tbh... Weather, looks apart, leaves a LOT to be desired, and, not having designed it in order to get 3pds to do what they can't was IMO a big mistake...

Maybe this was not possible due to contract matters ? Maybe the fact that it's server side makes it a lot more complex to open to 3pds, but truth is, weather wise P3d and Fsx with the best weather injectors still give a much better / coherent overall result.

I am going to give MFS at least 6 months to revisit whatever results down the line after this period, but for sure an xBox option is totally out of my plans.

Edited November 10, 20205 yr by jcomm

On 11/9/2020 at 7:31 AM, jcomm said:

 

OTOH, I am really missing being able to read, in the weather menu, Pressure, Temp, Dew Point, Wind... without having to open the layers that prtly reveal some of these variables... Pressure and Td for instance are never displayed, being it Real World or a Preset.

In FSX and P3D there is no weather environment variable in simconnect for dewpoint, and it appears that may the case with MSFS as well. Dewpoint is, of course, always included in a r/w METAR report, and weather engines like Active Sky most likely do their own internal calculations of temperature/dewpoint spread, and set visibility accordingly if they are close or equal.

The other problem in MSFS is that there is no way to directly set visibility in standard aviation units of miles/km or yards/meters, and no way to create dense fog short of placing a cloud in the ground.

I would also assume that dewpoint is a parameter available in the MeteoBlue forecast model, but that will be of little use if the MSFS weather engine cannot make use of it.