4 hours ago, MarcG said:

Debatable, but I'd prefer them to work on the current weather before moving resources to Historical Weather. The current Live Weather still needs a lot of work....a lot of work!

Cannot agree more! 

1 hour ago, Tuskin38 said:

Asobo has access to data sets that they don't

https://www.aviationweather.gov/metar ...... is this the data you need ??

1 minute ago, vadriver said:

https://www.aviationweather.gov/metar ...... is this the data you need ??

Asobo uses more than just METAR. What about the areas in-between METAR coverage? Asobo uses Meteblue for that.

Edited August 24, 20223 yr by Tuskin38

N/M waste of time.

Edited August 25, 20223 yr by jbdbow1970

11 hours ago, orchestra_nl said:

 

Saying that historical weather is unrealistic is like saying flightsims are unrealistic. We should all go out and fly real aircraft instead!

 

Flightsims *are* unrealistic.  Flying a real aircraft is a totally different experience.

8 hours ago, Juliet Alpha said:

Even those who think this is "not important" should vote for HW. It doesn't affect them for anything but may benefit others!

No, if it doesn't affect you, then vote for something that does.  It's more likely that thing will benefit others.

Just another example for which I would use historic weather: one of my favorite countries to fly is Norway. However, those winters are quite long over there and after flying over nothing but snow for a few weeks I would REALLY love to fly over there with at least a greener landscape. Now I could of course simply change the date but then I would be flying over a summer landscape with winter conditions... that would be odd. The only option left would be to enable a weather preset but those are utterly dull and predictive. In comes historic weather. I could pick a random day in July and let my self be surprised by the weather I run into while enjoying the summer landscape. That might be good weather or bad weather but at least it would be correct weather for that date and it would not be the same old predictive preset.

Anyway, there are LOTS of reasons why adding historic weather would be a good idea and it would open up an interesting world of possibilities.

I don’t see Asobo ever adding HW themselves. After all, Microsoft and LM never did it with earlier sims.

It was Hi-Fi who made it possible. But given the SDK is locked it would take a superhuman effort for them to interface with the weather engine.

But opening up the SDK to third-party developers would be far less effort so perhaps the request needs to be changed.

7 hours ago, andyjohnston.net said:

Flightsims *are* unrealistic.  Flying a real aircraft is a totally different experience.

That's what I tried to convey: A flightsimulator is not reality and we use them mostly for entertainment. A setup that would mimic reality would be so expensive that renting a real aircraft probably would be cheaper (thinking GA here).
 

4 hours ago, orchestra_nl said:

That's what I tried to convey: A flightsimulator is not reality and we use them mostly for entertainment. A setup that would mimic reality would be so expensive that renting a real aircraft probably would be cheaper (thinking GA here).
 

Gotcha.  Yes, in my area I can rent a 172 for $200+.  You'd never get that from MSFS, because in addition to buying hardware, the sim aircraft will never respond like a real one.  And you could never duplicate the actual sensation of getting airborne.

 

YES!!!

 

vote, vote, vote!!!

😁

(I hate this voting system, but vote 😉 )

 

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Edited September 9, 20223 yr by guenseli

Here is an example, as there are still people who do not have an idea why we need historic weather:

 

 

 

now starts the season with the nice misty mornings. When I get home from work later, this is all gone 😩

 

Edited September 12, 20223 yr by guenseli

So historic weather should include historic date/time too I presume. Same sunset time etc. God we need this.

Edited September 12, 20223 yr by Greazer

1 hour ago, Greazer said:

So historic weather should include historic date/time too I presume. Same sunset time etc. God we need this.

We already have the possibility to change the day and time which of course includes sunset time etc. It's only the weather which cannot be set to a former day/time. I guess one week backwards would be enough. Even 24 hrs would help a lot.

Edited September 12, 20223 yr by Nemo

Ive always found it difficult to obtain aftercasts irl. where do you get hold of them?