FSX Weather never seems the same

[Shayne 3]

Is anyone else having this problem?? I live in Costa Mesa CA and we have had some good Santa Ana winds at 30 plus mph and every time I download real weather on FSX it is no where close to what the airport or local cities are having. Another example would be if I creat my own wind layer and I tell it to have the wind from 110 degrees then it actually shows up about 15 -20 degrees away from what I have requested. I have also check on Snow and rain and they do not always work as the real wether at the location. Did the weather genration enginer get an over hall becasue it does work fairly well in FS9 and they at least are very close but not so in FSX????Shayne

[FlyingsCool 3]

Regarding the 15 to 20 degrees off, that sounds like the difference between true and magnetic North.In real life, I believe surface winds are reported in magnetic (since everything else about landing is in magnetic, too) and winds aloft are reported in true. I think FS does everything in magnetic, but I forget.Thomas[a href=http://www.flyingscool.com] http://www.flyingscool.com/images/Signature.jpg [/a]I like using VC's :-)N15802 KASH '73 Piper Cherokee Challenger 180

[Guest BlueRidgeDx]

Hi fellas,Actually, METAR and TAF winds are referenced to TRUE north, not magnetic. The only winds given in magnetic are the "tower winds".If FS is importing true winds, but exporting them as magnetic, that would account for the delta you're seeing.I don't know which method is used in FSX...I haven't checked it out personally. But I do know that Mike Gilbert (ACES) solicited opinions about using true vs. magnetic way back when FSX was first announced.Regards,Nick

[Guest yarvelling]

I have yet to find the real weather setting actually 'doing' anything....I have set it to use my nearest local weather station (RAF Mildenhall - EGUN) and yet everytime it reports that the visibility is clear, no clouds, temps at 59 degrees, etc...nice sort of a day really! I look out of my window (Mildenhall is only 15 miles away from me) and it could be peeing down with rain, low complete overcast and gusting winds! Real weather works fine for me in FS9 using whatever it sets as it's default weather station. I know both sims use the same look-up website, so I wonder, what's gone adrift in FSX?This is not an FSX bashing post BTW...i'm having a lot of fun with it, but this seems to be one thing that does not work, for me!

[Guest allcott]

Same for me across the whole UK. It NEVER reports the accurate weather. Thank god for Active Sky!Allcott

[NM5K 1]

Weird.. No problems noticed at all here in Houston.Mine seems to work the same as fs9, as far as overall wxcorrectness. IE: my airport temps seem to be right on so far. Ditto for rain storms that blow through..MK