August 26, 20223 yr I’ve not yet flown at locations with poor air quality and smog… does the sim simulate those kinds of conditions? In real life, I was once trapped in New Delhi for a few days due to oppressive smog that killed visibility. Many places in China can be bad as well (like Beijing). Is that kind of thing captured by live weather?
August 26, 20223 yr It can, but only if you manually set the weather and play with aerosol density. While Meteoblue does have the data for this, as of now it is not implemented in the Live Weather in MSFS. They have been telling us that they are planning to include it in the future, but they have been saying so for over a year now and there is no indication when and if they ever get around to it. Edited August 26, 20223 yr by Farlis
August 26, 20223 yr Author Just now, Farlis said: It can, but only if you manually set the weather and play with aersol density. While Meteoblue does have the data for this, as of now it is not implemented in the Live Weather in MSFS. They have been telling us that they are planning to include it in the future, but they have been saying so for over a year now and there is no indication when and if they ever get around to it. Interesting. Thanks. Too bad.
August 26, 20223 yr Well, not really, but it looks very acceptable to me: VABB 260700Z 26008KT 4000 HZ SCT018 SCT025 BKN090 29/25 Q1008 NOSIG https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gSsubGT4lbZTfY-dxFNYcaM_vnI6i4XX/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1j__NjJC2gNcVGStGG3J68D1t0heK9qYA/view?usp=sharing Actually overall I find MFS's weather, even with the visibility settings limitations, remarkably accurate. Edited August 26, 20223 yr by jcomm Flying gliders since 1980 Flightsimming since 1992 AMD Ryzen 5600x, 32GB RAM, GPU Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti 8 GB, 1 TB and 500 GB nvme2 SSD drives, HP 27" 60Hz LED monitor @ 1920x1080, T16000, Hotas from old X52 Pro, Saitek Combat Rudder Pro (2010 model)
August 26, 20223 yr I haven't seen any Kansas tornadoes either. 5800X3D, RTX4070, 600 Watt, one or two 1440p 32" screens, 64 GB RAM, 4 TB PCle 3 NVMe, Warthog throttle, VKB NXT EVO stick, Honeycomb Alpha yoke, CH quad, 3 Logitech panels, 2 StreamDecks, Desktop Aviator Trim Panel. Crystal Light VR.
August 26, 20223 yr I've seen very hazy, almost smog-like conditions using real weather - this is Baghdad, where I assumed a sand storm had passed through. Surely not everybody was kung fu fighting. https://rationalwiki.org
August 26, 20223 yr It does, though not directly. Visibility at indian airports is always around 4000 in MSFS, which is due to the real life metar, which is due to the smog. Only that MSFS does not "know" it's smog causing this visibility. For transparency: I'm a community mentor at the BATC discord. However, I do not get paid for it in any way.
August 26, 20223 yr I landed in okbk-kuwait from flightsim.to a day ago the low level visibility was very bad like in the New Delhi pic, it seems it developed after I picked the Cessna 150 to check out the city.
August 26, 20223 yr 7 hours ago, Virtual-Chris said: I’ve not yet flown at locations with poor air quality and smog… does the sim simulate those kinds of conditions? In real life, I was once trapped in New Delhi for a few days due to oppressive smog that killed visibility. Many places in China can be bad as well (like Beijing). Is that kind of thing captured by live weather? Not sure how consistently it's captured but flying out Delhi looked exactly like what I expected: 7800X3D - RTX 5080 - 64GB DDR5 - Dan C4-SFX
August 26, 20223 yr it only simulates smog. Water vapor haze is not reddish. It relies on clouds for 'haze' and reduced visibility thats not due to smog. Edited August 26, 20223 yr by sightseer | Dave | I've been around for most of my life. There's always a sunset happening somewhere in the world that somebody is enjoying.
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