METAR on Approach

[Mike777 162]

Once source of RW METARS is Flightaware.  It seems to cover the world -- earlier today I tried Kabul/OAKB and a slightly old METAR showed up.  Type in the ICAO (just the name may work too) in the search box and then scroll down to near the bottom of the page. 

Edited August 26, 2021 by Mike777

[Rene_Feijen 117]

On 8/25/2021 at 1:05 AM, Mace said:

The PMS GNS530 mod also has the same capability (pulling metar and displaying it on screen). 

Aha, I knew from the 750 but now learnt about the 530! 🙂

[bigifooti 128]

On 8/24/2021 at 4:10 PM, Lukamak said:

Hey guys, whats the best way in game to find out Winds and QNH when approaching an airport? (I don't mean deafult ATC). As when flying on VATSIM and there is no ATC Available.

how about ShiftZ? 

https://flightsim.to/file/16358/shift-z-stats

you need to edit the profile to also display local pressure. 

[Jetman67 503]

15 hours ago, bigifooti said:

how about ShiftZ? 

https://flightsim.to/file/16358/shift-z-stats

you need to edit the profile to also display local pressure. 

I did think about this and it's a great option but I'm not sure if it would be giving you the winds and qnh out from the airport on descent

[Alvega 1,998]

On 8/25/2021 at 8:21 PM, Jetman67 said:

I'm a bit confused now which is not hard lol, so Is there any tool that can tell you the arrival weather as it stands in msfs 2020 or must we just go by the atis on approach which can be way out or just pull up a real life metar and hope for the best,cheers

Use Unreal Weather and get the real destination metar with the tool FSUK_86 posted on page 1 of this thread or with a web browser. Forget MSFS live weather exists until they fix it, it is useless now.

That's what I do and works very well (even with Pilot2ATc, VATSIM and others).

[Jetman67 503]

Just now, Alvega said:

Use Unreal Weather and get the real destination metar with the tool FSUK_86 posted on page 1 of this thread or with a web browser. Forget MSFS live weather exists until they fix it, it is useless now.

That's what I do and works very well (even with Pilot2ATc, VATSIM and others).

Thanks will do

[Alvega 1,998]

1 minute ago, Jetman67 said:

Thanks will do

On long flights you can enable the MSFS weather to see the nice weather fronts and all but remember to disable it when you start descending so you get the real weather from Unreal Weather (real weather from unreal is nice, lol) again.

[webstef68 52]

Did someone compare the weather in MSFS with what's given from meteoblue on the net ? Just click on any location, sorry for the french link...

You will also find a metar service in the menu on the right.

Carte météo pour Lytton (legacy) - meteoblue

Edited August 27, 2021 by webstef68

[neil0311 366]

On 8/24/2021 at 10:10 AM, Lukamak said:

Hey guys, whats the best way in game to find out Winds and QNH when approaching an airport? (I don't mean deafult ATC). As when flying on VATSIM and there is no ATC Available.

Normally you’d listen to the ATIS at a controlled field or the ASOS/AWOS at an uncontrolled field (on the radio). Does VATSIM provide for that?

[jrw4 536]

Neil, VATSIM has its own METAR feed, which some software like LittleNavMap can access. Indeed, I think you can simply access METARs by just typing .wx [ICAO ID] into the command line of the vPilot client. If you're flying into or out of an airport where an online controller has posted an automated ATIS, you can get a voice (or text) ATIS on the frequency shown in the controller list.

Hope this helps.

 

[Gadget FPV 83]

If you are flying the FBW A320 neo, then you can get and print the weather information via the MCDU by going to the AOC menu and initiating a WX REQUEST...it is also displayed on the EFB dashboard...

Heres a video on how to do it...

 

Edited August 28, 2021 by Gadget FPV

[Bernard Ducret 745]

On 8/26/2021 at 8:08 AM, Rene_Feijen said:

Aha, I knew from the 750 but now learnt about the 530!

Yes, but... it will give you real world data, not MSFS weather! Read the developer's notes on Github...

Many advices in this thread are ignoring the OP's request and pointing to ways obtaining real world data, not MSFS weather!!!

One easy - but very superficial - way to plan your arrival (if your flight is not too long) is simply to take note of the wind indication on the initial screen when you select your departure and destination airports, however, you will only get the wind, not the weather at your destination airport, and a mere pictogram for your departure airport showing the weather conditions, hardly useful in aeronautical terms...

[Fiorentoni 3,315]

On 8/28/2021 at 4:46 PM, Gadget FPV said:

If you are flying the FBW A320 neo, then you can get and print the weather information via the MCDU by going to the AOC menu and initiating a WX REQUEST...it is also displayed on the EFB dashboard...

Heres a video on how to do it...

 

It is only real world weather and not the MSFS one. It is not yet possible (technically spoken) to pull weather data from the sim, for any addon. That's why the payware aircraft like 737 or A320 (Fenix) will not have weather radar, at least until Asobo creates a possibility to pull weather data for 3rd party addons.

[RandallR 416]

3 hours ago, Bernard Ducret said:

Yes, but... it will give you real world data, not MSFS weather! Read the developer's notes on Github...

Many advices in this thread are ignoring the OP's request and pointing to ways obtaining real world data, not MSFS weather!!!

The reason real world weather reports are important to me is that they have matched about 90% of the weather (surface and low level winds at least) for my destination approach consideration in MSFS.

Last night on a flight in Mexico I pulled the latest real world METAR for my destination during my descent - the wind (according to the real world data) had shifted almost 180 degrees.  As I intercepted final (after changing my approach) I found that the winds were spot-on to the metar as indicated on the panel.  Not only were the winds a match, but the cloud cover had also changed and was remarkably close to the latest METAR.

Sometimes the weather doesn't match at all and that can be frustrating, but until there are further developments, I use all of the tools at my disposal (including RW METAR and in-sim ATIS (as flawed as it is) to hopefully get a picture of the sim conditions and make the best adjustments I can.  Now, if there was only some way to get the in-sim ATC to respond appropriately to requests for changes of approach and runway...

[Oldschool61 38]

On 8/24/2021 at 4:06 PM, Mike S KPDX said:

wait a minute, I don't think this is pulling info from the sim, doesn't this just pull real world data?

Which would be worthless unless it was in the sim as well.