To get the correct wind direction in Live Weather, I always have to press the reset button in WorldMap before I plan my flights, otherwise I always get the runways that applied to my previous flights wind direction when I set my departure and arrivals, even though the wind direction has changed, has anyone else noted this?

Kind of related in a beat around the bush sort of way, but did they ever fix the windsock direction pointing opposite of what they should be?

even with live weatehr soemtimes i tend to get the forcasted weather and not the actual weather,,, its weird.

I use the shift-z-stat mod to check wind while at ramp then adjust flight plan. (which is most of the time)

Edited September 16, 20214 yr by jimcarrel

Go to windy.com

 

https://www.windy.com/?25.562,-84.814,3

 

Edited September 16, 20214 yr by Manny

5 hours ago, Manny said:

Go to windy.com

 

https://www.windy.com/?25.562,-84.814,3

 

yes, that's a good idea, but shift z stats get info from inside sim, more reliable for at the moment in sim wind, which doesn't much match weather meta

Neither is a solution to the original post. For those that like to plan from the World Map flight planner just have to do it as the OP suggested for now.

On 9/16/2021 at 1:01 PM, Phantoms said:

Kind of related in a beat around the bush sort of way, but did they ever fix the windsock direction pointing opposite of what they should be?

yes, a couple updates ago. 

Edited September 17, 20214 yr by Tuskin38

7 hours ago, Tuskin38 said:

yes, a couple updates ago. 

Good to know. I've been mostly flying out of medium size airfields lately. When I flew the smaller airfields I had basically stopped paying attention to the windsocks because of them being bugged.

This post brought them back into my mind.

Edited September 18, 20214 yr by Phantoms

Where on earth does this thing get its weather from - particularly winds?  The wind displayed in the world map can be quite different from the wind that gets inserted once you load the flight.  For example currently at YMER on the world map the wind is displayed is 32810KT once in the sim it has the wind at 13007KT which agrees with the current metar. At other times, even from within the sim, the winds can be very different from the current metar.

Bruce

 

To know the wind actually simulated in the game to select a runway, the only good solution I found is to check it in Little Nav Map. The sim itself is unreliable. 

But does this give the wind as depicted in the sim?  If you are planning a flight from airport ABC to airport XYZ how do you find out what the sim thinks the winds are at airport XYZ?

Bruce