Look ma, no runway required. at 63 knots head wind your C172 becomes a VTOL with its rotation speed of only 55 knots. 😊

Edited September 18, 20223 yr by turbomax

Flew in that last night, in a caravan, saw another guy in a C152, pretty sure we both should've been blown out the sky!

 

Will check it out again later, there's a mini hurricane over Puerto Rico too.

Very useful 'tool' or site for Storm Chasers:

 

https://www.badbadweather.com/

4 minutes ago, polosim said:

Very useful 'tool' or site for Storm Chasers:

 

https://www.badbadweather.com/

Nice site! Thanks.

About 18 min. Feel free to fast forward as you see fit

Edited September 18, 20223 yr by btacon

Video Link Fixed

Edited September 18, 20223 yr by btacon

I spawned on the runway at RJOS in a 172, and the wind knocked me off centre when I released the parking breaks, it's gusting between 45 and 56, sometimes reaching 60. I tried to straighten out and it blew me backwards. This is SU10 Beta fyi

Edited September 18, 20223 yr by Tuskin38

2 hours ago, btacon said:

Feel free to fast forward as you see fit

have you ever flown in such conditions? I have, minus the turbulence, that's the moment you make your testimony and even if you have never prayed in your whole life, now the time has come. one of the 3 scariest moments in my life. flew there in RJDB today in a C172, but MSFS did not do justice to the weather reports, it felt nothing like "gusting 63 kts", you couldn't even have taken off, probably got turned over still on the ramp while listening to ATIS 😀.

When shall we fly again, in thunder, typhoon or in rain?

Edited September 18, 20223 yr by turbomax

Do you think MSFS replicates the physics of bad weather accurately? I always feel that the effects of strong winds on MSFS aircraft should be much more than they are in the sim. I find it too easy to land and takeoff in the sim as well as fly in bad weather. Is that really as per real life?

6 minutes ago, steve310002 said:

Do you think MSFS replicates the physics of bad weather accurately?....

I find it too easy to land and takeoff in the sim as well as fly in bad weather.

Is that really as per real life?

no

yes

no

as I mentioned above. the Cessna 172 has a "maximum demonstrated crosswind component" of 15 kts,  there is no way you could take off in a C172 @ 63 kts gusting winds, you wouldn't even at half that speed. and landing is no option either. 😀

Edited September 18, 20223 yr by turbomax

this is what you'd get if you're lucky (RJOS Tokushima, real world weather). You know what's going on when your GPS shows ground speed of 50 kts, and your indicated airspeed is showing 95 kts:

Edited September 18, 20223 yr by turbomax

2 hours ago, steve310002 said:

Do you think MSFS replicates the physics of bad weather accurately? I always feel that the effects of strong winds on MSFS aircraft should be much more than they are in the sim. I find it too easy to land and takeoff in the sim as well as fly in bad weather. Is that really as per real life?

No and like other posters here have commented most certainly not the wind physics LOL. 

That said, it DOES have some very good WX physics around cloud coverage, density, and opacity,

And it now has Spectacular rain effects including squalls, bursts and under cloud torrents that you pop in and out of as you fly under the cloud deck. The “On / Off / On again” drumbeat staccato of the rain hitting the windscreen is an experience to be had if you’ve not yet already done so.  (happens in the video btw)

I’m 65, got my PPL SEL in 1977 at the age of 20 and have been flight siming since I got my first Atari 800 in 1984 solely for the purpose of flying the new “Flight Simulator II” by subLogic followed in 1986 with a new computer (Atari ST) and the first “GEM” based version of the same game and I think I have owned or played (and still play) over 90% of all flight simulation software that has been made ever since that time. It’s my personal hobby and it is with this background I can unequivocally state that the latest iteration of MSFS 2020 is best Ive ever seen. The best that has never been  

-B

Edited September 19, 20223 yr by btacon

1 minute ago, btacon said:

I can unequivocally state that the latest iteration of MSFS 2020 is best Ive ever seen. The best that has never been  

Amen!

Go to Aguadilla, Puerto Rico about now, it should be fairly bad, too.  Earlier San Juan, PR had 47 knot gusts.  And they're on the back side of it.

2 hours ago, turbomax said:

no

yes

no

as I mentioned above. the Cessna 172 has a "maximum demonstrated crosswind component" of 15 kts,  there is no way you could take off in a C172 @ 63 kts gusting winds, you wouldn't even at half that speed. and landing is no option either. 😀

A "demonstrated" crosswind component is definitely not the greatest component an aircraft can handle, it's just the max that was demonstrated. I've certainly landed a 172 in greater than a 15kt crosswind component.  My record was probably a direct crosswind gusting to 48kts, in an M20C.  It can certainly be done, though it was sporty.

I'm not saying it can be done in a 63kt crosswind component, but the plane could certainly fly and takeoff and land in that wind, if it were mostly headwind. It would not be fun or smart, but not physically impossible either. 

My experience with crosswind effect in MSFS is typically that it manifests too strongly for a given wind speed, not too gently.  But I've never gone looking for these kinds of winds, I'll have to try it.