I have not flown this Seneca V model in months due to the original ugly issues with the ILS.  That seems to be working now after a few MSFS updates.  I cannot get the weather radar to work: the radar is on but does not show anything even if I am flying in bad weather.  I can't remember if Asobo is still working on implementing the weather radar functionality... was this fixed by Asobo?  thanks.    

No weather radar in MSFS at the moment.

6 hours ago, Mart2020 said:

I have not flown this Seneca V model in months due to the original ugly issues with the ILS.  That seems to be working now after a few MSFS updates.  I cannot get the weather radar to work: the radar is on but does not show anything even if I am flying in bad weather.  I can't remember if Asobo is still working on implementing the weather radar functionality... was this fixed by Asobo?  thanks.    

I haven't flown it in a while, but initially it did show the precipitation perfectly - I specifically tested it on many occasions, as people said there was no weather radar implementation in MSFS, which confused me.
I understand some developers don't want to implement weather radar until Asobo develop the SDK better, but it certainly worked in the Seneca on release.
So is this now broken?  I am assuming you know it doesn't show clouds, right?  But just precipitation, like in some real life weather radars.

Edited January 2, 20233 yr by bobcat999

I just did a great little flight in the Carenado Seneca (I forgot just how good it was) and sure enough, when I set the weather to show some showers, the precipitation showed perfectly on the radar. 
The brightness and range controls also work perfectly, but not the elevation setting (which I think @SierraHotel is talking about).

So basically it shows a horizontal slice of the precipitation at your altitude.  It works well enough that I was able to fly into the voids and the rain stopped, whilst I was getting hammered in the yellow areas displayed on the radar.
Like I say, the radar only shows the various levels of precipitation, not the clouds themselves, and this is where some people get confused.

The weather radar used to be the wrong way around and show the clouds and not the rain, but more than a year ago, Asobo did some work on this so that Carenado could display precipitation properly on their screens.  This seems to have passed some people by.

Why PMDG, Fenix, and others don't use weather radar yet is down to them.  I believe the current implementation is not to their liking and they want something more sophisticated.

For me, this shows the precipitation and related poor visibility areas in the rain, and it works perfectly.  Easily good enough to navigate around the precipitation areas or wait for it to clear on an airport approach.
As you fly into the various coloured areas on the radar, you have the rain pelting on the aircraft, the bit of extra turbulence, and suffer the reduced visibility of trying to look through the rain showers below the clouds themselves, which I believe is the point of the radar display.

Edited January 2, 20233 yr by bobcat999

17 hours ago, bobcat999 said:

Why PMDG, Fenix, and others don't use weather radar yet is down to them. 

They are waiting for the API.................