I am flying in Europe and have to say that the weather is always quiet accurate. Never I see clear weather while there should be clouds or there is fair weather while there should be an OC. 
 Every day make a flight …

3 hours ago, Twenty6 said:

Hmmmmm. I think that's exactly what they're doing.

 

Just kidding .... carry on.

Trouble is I am sure that is what they are doing.   How else could we get pretty cumulonimbus with bases at 500 ft and a dry bulb of 30 and a wet of 10 C.

I am sure no one there passed their FAA or EASA weather subject. Someone should send them to https://www.omnicalculator.com/physics/cloud-base

Rather that rather hotplace place some Flight simmers are thinking they should go to.

27 minutes ago, GSalden said:

I am flying in Europe and have to say that the weather is always quiet accurate. Never I see clear weather while there should be clouds or there is fair weather while there should be an OC. 
 Every day make a flight …

Could be true but when you pass the 300 mile radius from your port of origin, you wil see clouds clear up in a very distinct straight line and then only haze is left. 

6 hours ago, Concodroid said:

This isn't directed at you, but this topic again?

The people working on developing these expansions are not usually the same people who would fix the weather. You wouldn't ask a modeler, for example, to program ATC logic.

If you do less Reno stuff, you need less modelers, you have more money to employ coders.

9 hours ago, abranpuko said:

Finally, someone who thinks!
I thought I was the only one in the face of  the outrage that a year and a half later I have a product that does not work in the most basic way: live weather.

On the other hand, I just saw that they have released the wonderful airport of prague, and ORBX in their teaser, it puts planes taking off.
What planes? because in MSFS the ai model does not take off!

It's a pack of commercial lies

 

where do you see praque airport for msfs on orbx, I can't find it

Edited December 23, 20214 yr by pilotter

1 hour ago, Fiorentoni said:

If you do less Reno stuff, you need less modelers, you have more money to employ coders.

If you do less Reno, you have less income, you have less money to employ coders.

As soon as MS stops releasing stuff I think we have 1, maybe 2 years before they pull the plug.

I

 

36 minutes ago, hansb57 said:

If you do less Reno, you have less income, you have less money to employ coders.

As soon as MS stops releasing stuff I think we have 1, maybe 2 years before they pull the plug.

I

 

Besides that, Reno air races definitely required coders, not just aircraft modellers. Otherwise the shiny new aircraft would sit on the ground. In fact, they wouldn't even sit on the ground, because the coders inject them into the sim, so the shiny new aircraft would be sitting in the modellers' 3D editing suites 😅iif you didn't have plenty of modellers for every graphical asset you see on the screen, the programmers may as well not turn up for work, else it becomes a text adventure.

Edited December 23, 20214 yr by March Hare

2 hours ago, phmcr said:

Could be true but when you pass the 300 mile radius from your port of origin, you wil see clouds clear up in a very distinct straight line and then only haze is left. 

Absolutely not on both my pc’s here. Two days ago with a flight from Amsterdam to Tivat I landed with a lot of thick clouds…. 
 

 

Edited December 23, 20214 yr by GSalden

You have to be concerned with these ongoing issues with the backend functionality. 

we keep being told its a ten year project, and we are what 18months or so into it and we still have issues. At the end of the ten year support what then happens - will the plug be pulled?

will we end up with no real world weather, no world data streaming etc

in any case we are in reality down to a known 8.5 year support cycle now (yes I know it may turn out to be longer) with issues still present.

 

The question has to be how long will we get with a fully working and stable platform before they pull the PIN?

 

 

5 hours ago, phmcr said:

Could be true but when you pass the 300 mile radius from your port of origin, you wil see clouds clear up in a very distinct straight line and then only haze is left. 

I had this exact problem, only way I got it to go away was shut off ipv6 in internet network settings. I have no idea why my weather would stop or how to make it work with ipv6 on but my weather now injects from start to finish no matter how long I fly. Maybe worth a try. I wish I knew why its like this but that is way over my head. 

 

Thanks 

Hope it helps

Anthony

3 hours ago, hanhamreds said:

 

The question has to be how long will we get with a fully working and stable platform before they pull the PIN?

 

 

Pointless troll feeding is a leading cause of brain damage or is it the other way around?

Merry X- MAS everyone!

Cheers

bs

Edited December 23, 20214 yr by bean_sprout

5 hours ago, Fiorentoni said:

If you do less Reno stuff, you need less modelers, you have more money to employ coders.

No

4 hours ago, hansb57 said:

If you do less Reno, you have less income, you have less money to employ coders

Yes

I always fly with live weather. I have never had it not work. 

12 minutes ago, Ricardo41 said:

No

Yes

While I appreciate your thorough reasoning, it's still wrong. If you are a business and are making money from something, you don't stop that and do something "good", just because you earned enough to sustain that. You just get more money out of what you are doing, you maximize any profit, which means:
More Reno, more income, more modelers, more Reno, more income...

Even in the best of all cases (which would be: they DO employ more coders) all we can hope for is some trickle-down-improvements every now and then. And you know trickle-down is already hardly working for Capitalism, so I don't have high hopes for that.

There is only one solution for making MSFS the most authentic real flight simulator in the future: If Asobo (and Microsoft...) decide to voluntarily focus on that (instead of Reno & Co.), even if it means to lose a lof of potential profit. There have been smaller devs doing that in the past with flight simulators, mostly hardcore idealist devs, but I cannot see Microsoft doing that, not at all. They gain the most from a lot of PR for Microsoft, and that involves TopGun-stuff and Reno stuff and visual stuff a lot more than hardcore flight simulation for tubeliner procedure flying.

I am just hoping that MSFS reaches the quality and reliability of P3D (or X-Plane) for airliner flying and all the necessary tools (correct weather, GSX, study line aircraft) within those ominous 10 years; because if that happens, then I have what I have now but just much more beautiful. But I have no illusions about MSFS being the end to all simulators...

7 hours ago, harrry said:

How else could we get pretty cumulonimbus with bases at 500 ft and a dry bulb of 30 and a wet of 10 C.

Or dense fog with 1/2 mile visibility where in metars there was only 60% humidity like I have twice recently experienced at Dallas on 80°F days.  Or a dry bulb as per your use (simply temp here) of 2°C and wet bulb (dew point here) that is always 10°C.  The wet bulb cannot be greater than the dry bulb.  The wet bulb, or dew point, is not critical for most flight calculations.  They could save themselves a lot of embarrassment if they would just remove it from ATIS broadcasts until after they fix it. 

The primary use of wet bulb at the surface is for forecasting and for heat index.  Aviation use is typically of dew points aloft from radiosonde equipped balloons for forecasts of potential icing conditions or formation of hailstones.  Temp and dewpoint in close range to each other often only confirms visibility conditions and perhaps allows us to anticipate changing conditions.  Both are fallbacks.

Edited December 23, 20214 yr by fppilot