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Can I check the weather report in MSFS during the flight?

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Can I? Is any window for this? Something like Ctrl+F11 in Active Sky for P3D (Weather report from current METAR) with direction of wind, temp etc?

I use real weather and on this info I have only big text REAL WEATHER, thats all. Befor the flight I can see direction of wind only on map editor. During the flight I dont know any tool to check the weather.

Example:

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So any idea? Thank You!

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I use this mod that shows the wind direction and speed, and the temperature. - https://flightsim.to/file/3181/fspm-vfr-map

After SU5 the icon on top bar is blank, but it works, press it and wait a couple seconds.

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Thx! It would be nice to see it in the sim also as default weather window (with detail of uncrypted METAR, not just text REAL WEATHER). Maybe I'll add this idea for votes.

This is important because during, for example, a 1-hour flight, the weather can change and the conditions and wind direction at the landing airport will be completely different.

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1 hour ago, YoYo said:

Thx! It would be nice to see it in the sim also as default weather window (with detail of uncrypted METAR, not just text REAL WEATHER). Maybe I'll add this idea for votes.

This is important because during, for example, a 1-hour flight, the weather can change and the conditions and wind direction at the landing airport will be completely different.

That's why us real pilots tune in the airport's ATIS comm frequency when getting closer to the destination.  It will "read" him/her the current METAR for the airport.  That said, using the default ATC to do that for "real weather" in MSFS may be a YMMV situation. 

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27 minutes ago, FalconAF said:

That's why us real pilots tune in the airport's ATIS comm frequency when getting closer to the destination.  It will "read" him/her the current METAR for the airport.  That said, using the default ATC to do that for "real weather" in MSFS may be a YMMV situation. 

Right, but here is a METAR is present in communication 😉 ? Also, for small airports no this info in P3D/FSX for example. Just big airports with automatic info.

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6 minutes ago, YoYo said:

Right, but here is a METAR is present in communication 😉 ? Also, for small airports no this info in P3D/FSX for example. Just big airports with automatic info.

with the ctrl z addon you get the current correct info, and is uses almost no xtra performence, where a complete ingame map witll cost a bit.

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20 hours ago, wim123 said:

with the ctrl z addon you get the current correct info, and is uses almost no xtra performence, where a complete ingame map witll cost a bit.

The problem only is that I fly in VR, if this texts work as in P3D it wont be shown in VR picture, just on 2D monitor, will try. TY!

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ahhh ok, sorry, i didnt see that, its in your profile.

hope you find another solution then.

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After farting around with MSFS for the past few months.. I'm not impressed.  with all its hype and praise.. Its buggy as can be and nothing more than eye candy. Flying bing maps pretty much.  And 3rd party developers are probably gonna have a really hard time making a quality product that works as well as it did in FSX.. maybe things will change, who knows.. But with microsoft these days, I wouldnt hold my breathe.  

You could also use RW metar information from Skyvector, Meteoblue, NOAA, or similar. It will not always exactly match the MSFS weather but that’s just like in the RW as well. Surprises happen and pilots must deal with them. In a sim I’d call it fun.

29 minutes ago, Saucey12 said:

After farting around with MSFS for the past few months.. I'm not impressed.  with all its hype and praise.. Its buggy as can be and nothing more than eye candy. Flying bing maps pretty much.  And 3rd party developers are probably gonna have a really hard time making a quality product that works as well as it did in FSX.. maybe things will change, who knows.. But with microsoft these days, I wouldnt hold my breathe.  

And you posted this reply in a thread from July 2021 exactly why? And how does your input help the OP?

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