They seem to have one with Hasbro around the My Little Pony line of products. The usual frigging repetitive  lightnings were agremented today with a couple of no less frigging  huge rainbows. Couldn't shake them off.

Typical of the sim. I was flying low over the Oubangui river in the rain and low visibility. The jungle framing the river on both sides gave an impressive and very realistic environment. Brownie point.  But I had to cope with the fake rainbows and over the top lightnings which wasted it a bit. 

There is a gem of a weather engine in this sim. Time to clean it up from all the gimmicks.

Edited September 5, 20214 yr by Dominique_K

3 minutes ago, Dominique_K said:

There is a gem of a weather engine in this sim. Time to clean it up from all the gimmicks.

Yes! My agreement with that statement began on or around August 25th.

2020!

That was the date I first flew in MSFS. 

And just the day before yesterday on a flight from Chicago to Kansas City I was out of any resemblance of storms, in nearly clear skies, for over an hour and still getting a stereophonic symphony of thunder!  

The sad thing is that lightnings seemed to be fixed at some point in the development. The return of this bug makes me think that they didn't find the source of the problem at that time.

Rainbows are just ridiculous, they are everywhere. I never saw them often IRL.

Unfortunately, no one has ever taught Asobo that more, is sometimes just more... not always better.  Even with the FDE, they read something about a particular effect, and implement it at 100 times the RW equivalent. Hopefully this concept will be understood by them, sooner than later.

C

Edited September 5, 20214 yr by cavaricooper

14 minutes ago, MrFuzzy said:

The sad thing is that lightnings seemed to be fixed at some point in the development.

I thought it was too but that was also going into the winter season in the northern hemisphere so I always wondered if it really was ever fixed.  As soon as summer season was beginning this year the lightning was back in full force.  Really would like to just see an option to disable the lightning effect at this point.  Hope this can all get tuned with the updated WX engine next year....

16 minutes ago, cavaricooper said:

Unfortunately, no one has ever taught Asobo that more, is sometimes just more... not always better.  Even with the FDE, they read something about a particular effect, and implement it at 100 times the RW equivalent. Hopefully this concept will be understood by them, sooner than later.

I sometimes wonder if it is just reaction.

You want thunder and lightening?  We'll show you thunder and lightening!

 

40 minutes ago, MrFuzzy said:

The sad thing is that lightnings seemed to be fixed at some point in the development. The return of this bug makes me think that they didn't find the source of the problem at that time.

Rainbows are just ridiculous, they are everywhere. I never saw them often IRL.

About the lightnings, I see two problems :

- the sim appears to systematically translate MB or METAR stormy conditions by a thunder

- The second one is the rhythm of the lightnings.

If the first may raise programming difficulties to fix, the second one seems more like a parameter to tweak. They did it for the icing.

About the rainbows: they look totally fake on my screen but I give Asobo credit that my SDR monitor and old graphic card may not  be up to snuff to show them in all their splendor. But two huge ones, one behind the other was a bit too much 😏.   

Edited September 5, 20214 yr by Dominique_K

I'm still convinced the missing link is Meteoblues lack of Lightning Detection in their software, of all the major weather sites & apps they still don't have this most basic inclusion. So Asobo, who get their weather data from MeteoBlue, might be getting erratic/incorrect information and thus you get lightning in clear skies.

Of course that's merely a theory, it could well be something else, regardless I'm still haunted by the "what lightning in clear skies bug?" quote from that early Q&A, that's when my eyebrow first raised to Asobos incompetence, the fact it still remains is simply poor....but alas here we are.

I saw a double rainbow the other day flying around and it looked extremely fake.

Speaking of rainbow, just got one (half of one and faint actually), from my windows, thanks a very light rain illuminated to a summer sunset with scattered clouds !  Nothing like what I see in game. I am blessed by having one 4/6 times a year.

Edited September 5, 20214 yr by Dominique_K

9 hours ago, fppilot said:

You want thunder and lightening?  We'll show you thunder and lightening!

Thunderbolt and lightning, very very frightening!

...jim

 

Never had more than two rainbows at once.

Also never had a unicorn.

Ripped off ........

Whenever I get the lightning spam issue, usually most of the times I fly in the Caribbean (even with almost clear skies), I change to Unreal Weather and problem solved. It is free and you can change to it in-flight in a couple seconds, it's good to have it as a backup to solve that problem.

Edited September 6, 20214 yr by Alvega

31 minutes ago, Alvega said:

Whenever I get the lightning spam issue, usually most of the times I fly in the Caribbean (even with almost clear skies), I change to Unreal Weather and problem solved. It is free, it's good to have it as a backup to solve that problem.

I have just yesterday installed and configured Unreal Weather and so far, in static situations at various airports, I am encouraged.  The weather appears very accurate and more current.

I will say that I grew frustrated at completing the token registration process and then getting MSFS and Unreal Weather to cooperate with each other.  My MSFS was ceasing to continue loading with the bar stalling permanently at about 60% when proceeding toward Fly from the World page.  Finally acquired success after a number of restarts, reboots, and trials and tribulations.  Have no idea what ultimately led to success, but I now have weather set to Unreal Weather and flights are loading completely.  I am not changing anything for fear....   Too many nervous moments to get to this point!

Hope it continues to reward with timely and accurate weather.  Have about 6 hours of flying schedule for tomorrow.  Will see....  However the forecast aviation weather from Kansas City to Denver and then from Denver to San Jose appears to be mostly clear with light winds at my planned altitude.  No #$%^&(^%^%$%#  thunderstorms!

The flight from Denver to San Jose in the Rob Young mod Turbo Bonanza is over four hours and required that I order these last week.  They arrived today, Fedex Sunday delivery...
https://www.sportys.com/travel-john-pack-of-18.html?mrkgadid=&mrkgen=27&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=Smart_Shopping&creative={AdId}&device=c&matchtype=&mrkgcl=596&acctid=700000001999345&dskeywordid=92700064306817930&lid=92700064306817930&ds_s_kwgid=58700007109433166&ds_s_inventory_feed_id=97700000007407630&dsproductgroupid=294682000766&product_id=6597A&merchid=2857566&prodctry=US&prodlang=en&channel=online&storeid=&device=c&network=u&matchtype=&locationid=9008000&creative=524093874389&targetid=pla-294682000766&campaignid=13261768744&adgroupid=122815601677&gclid=Cj0KCQjw1dGJBhD4ARIsANb6OdmLEKDs3nQ1GvAX6ZnK4c5-CKGrnUmJ1NFbZSKbRXTlTsWAERUOVIwaApMxEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds

Edited September 6, 20214 yr by fppilot

On 9/5/2021 at 12:09 PM, MarcG said:

I'm still haunted by the "what lightning in clear skies bug?" quote from that early Q&A, that's when my eyebrow first raised to Asobos incompetence, the fact it still remains is simply poor.

I remember hearing the excuse of "we cant reproduce this" and this excuse echos in my mind every time someone points out a major bug to them.  It makes me think they arent even using the same version that we are sometimes.

Edited September 6, 20214 yr by Brandon01110