Had enough of live weather, any options?

[Nigge 20]

Hi! Since Aerosoft finally has made msfs fun to fly again I have started once again reacting over how incredibly bad the live weather is, not even close to the real metar. Have anybody got any suggestions how you use this to make it as realistic as possible? 

[lzamm 143]

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[Claudius_ 323]

You can go back to Xplane and taste their beautiful real weather. 

[Dominique_K 10,133]

They have given out the rods to be beaten with, calling ‘live weather’ what is, if I understand it well, actually predicted weather.

That being said the weather engine is rather good even if it needs some tweakings (thunder ⛈️ !).

[Bobsk8 12,585]

32 minutes ago, Dominique_K said:

They have given out the rods to be beaten with, calling ‘live weather’ what is, if I understand it well, actually predicted weather.

That being said the weather engine is rather good even if it needs some tweakings (thunder ⛈️ !).

I am flying in the New York area now, and what I see looks pretty much like the Metar that is current for that area. 

[fppilot 4,355]

1 hour ago, Claudius_ said:

You can go back to Xplane and taste their beautiful real weather. 

Or FSX/FSX SE/P3D with Active Sky and REX textures.  None of the elements in MSFS come close.  And please do not even mention ATIS/AWOS.  Check my message footer....

Edited March 17, 2021 by fppilot

[JBDB-MD80 1,470]

Free Unreal weather or payware REX weather force but don't expect the weather transition to be smooth like default though.

Edited March 17, 2021 by jbdbow1970

[sluflyer06 32]

2 hours ago, fppilot said:

Or FSX/FSX SE/P3D with Active Sky and REX textures.  None of the elements in MSFS come close.  And please do not even mention ATIS/AWOS.  Check my message footer....

That pic isn't supposed to look good is it?

[Noel 4,487]

2 hours ago, Bobsk8 said:

I am flying in the New York area now, and what I see looks pretty much like the Metar that is current for that area. 

It's been every bit as comparable as ActiveSky has been for me.   I'd mainly like the cloud rendering to offer some more high definition edges where appropriate and better, more interesting upper atmosphere cirrus type clouds.  But overall, seriously, it is so much better than what I have in ASN4.

[Claudius_ 323]

23 minutes ago, sluflyer06 said:

That pic isn't supposed to look good is it?

In my opinion he can keep his sprites, maybe he doesn't know the difference with real volumetric clouds at a real 600km range.

[fppilot 4,355]

25 minutes ago, sluflyer06 said:

That pic isn't supposed to look good is it?

Might have baited you.  Is that a pick from the real sky?  or from a simulator?  Watch out....

[Ricardo41 5,936]

8 hours ago, Nigge said:

 how incredibly bad the live weather is 

I live fairly close to my home airport. My, admittedly unsophisticated, approach is to look out the window, load up the default live weather and see how they match. MSFS is usually quite close. 

6 hours ago, fppilot said:

Or FSX/FSX SE/P3D with Active Sky and REX textures.  None of the elements in MSFS come close.  And please do not even mention ATIS/AWOS.  Check my message footer....

 

I checked your message footer, what am I supposed to be seeing?

I bought REX Weather Force when it came out, but lately REX is at best hit and miss. It seems they have server issues. Not sure whether those have been resolved, haven't checked their discord lately, as I got tired of having to switch off REX and revert back to MSFS live weather. As I said, live weather works for me. 

Edited March 18, 2021 by Ricardo41

[pete_auau 1,154]

1 hour ago, Ricardo41 said:

I checked your message footer, what am I supposed to be seeing?

Well if  you look  more  closely  at  his  footer,  its  in  bold  he is a former USAF meteorologist and  since  the  title  of  the  thread  is Live  weather

[Nuggit82 2]

Well I agree that "look-wise" the weather engine is doing a great job. My main problem is that most of the time (around Europe where I usually fly) the QNH is way off most of the time. Yesterday did a flight from ESSA... the real live metar said QNH 1022... MSFS said 1013.

[Dominique_K 10,133]

11 minutes ago, Nuggit82 said:

Well I agree that "look-wise" the weather engine is doing a great job. My main problem is that most of the time (around Europe where I usually fly) the QNH is way off most of the time. Yesterday did a flight from ESSA... the real live metar said QNH 1022... MSFS said 1013.

Again, MFS gets its data from MeteoBlue, a Swiss company of weather forecasting.These are predictions not observations. The word « live weather » is misleading.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteoblue