May 14, 20233 yr I have been recently toying with the WT Garmin. I found a weather functionality that I am not sure to understand. I didn't find anything useful in the 238-page original manual. Anybody having some ideas about : - the legends : is red for thunder, orange for heavy rain and green for lighter rain ? - what elevation for the radar cone ? The aircraft (the MV Porter) is at rest on tarmac here . - can I trust MSFS to give back a reliable information ? Edited May 14, 20233 yr by Dominique_K Dominique Simming since 1981 - [email protected] GHz with 16 GB of RAM and a 1080 with 8 GB VRAM running a 27" @ 2560*1440 - Windows 10 - Warthog HOTAS - MFG pedals - MSFS Standard version with Steam
May 14, 20233 yr If I'm remembering correctly this may not be weather radar data but rather Nextrad radar data broadcast from ground stations and displayed by the GNS
May 14, 20233 yr Just now, Matchstick said: If I'm remembering correctly this may not be weather radar data but rather Nextrad radar data broadcast from ground stations and displayed by the GNS Yes this is exactly it. Weather overlay with delay 10-15 minutes. So it can't be called radar. Life time flight sim enthusiast, current airplane owner 172P (past C182F). FAA CP/IR ASEL/AMEL, FI ASELMy System: AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D , MSI X870 GAMING PLUS, 64G RAM, ASUS RTX5090, 4T SSDPut my hands on (pic/dual/given)7GCAA, 8KCAB, BE24, BE76, BE35-C33, BE35, C150, C152, C172B/N/P/R/SP, 182F, M20E,M20C, M20J, AT6(SNJ4), PA28-140,PA28-151, PA28-161,PA28-181,PA28RT-201,PA28R-180/201T, PA24-250, PA32-300R, PA44, AC114, YAK-18T, YAK-52, SR22
May 14, 20233 yr Author Hmmm the plot thickens. OK, thank you both, I said radar because I saw it after I checked the Weather Radar Pod on the tablet. Maybe a coincidence... So it actually is delayed radar info. This brings me back to my questions about the legends and the altitude of what I see on the display. How can I manage my trajectory with this info. ? Dominique Simming since 1981 - [email protected] GHz with 16 GB of RAM and a 1080 with 8 GB VRAM running a 27" @ 2560*1440 - Windows 10 - Warthog HOTAS - MFG pedals - MSFS Standard version with Steam
May 14, 20233 yr 2 hours ago, Dominique_K said: Hmmm the plot thickens. OK, thank you both, I said radar because I saw it after I checked the Weather Radar Pod on the tablet. Maybe a coincidence... So it actually is delayed radar info. This brings me back to my questions about the legends and the altitude of what I see on the display. How can I manage my trajectory with this info. ? If you want to avoid rain in the sim don't enter the colored areas. If you enter the green area you will see light rain, in the orange area medium rain and in the red area heavy rain. Alvega CPU: AMD 7800X3D | COOLER: Cooler Master MasterLiquid 240L Core ARGB | GPU: RTX 4070 TI Super 16GB OC | Mobo: ASUS TUF GAMING X670E-PLUS WIFI |RAM: 32 GB Corsair Vengeance RGB DDR5 6000MHz PC5-48000 2x16GB CL36 | SSDs: WD Black SN770 2TB NVMe SSD (WIN11), WD Black SN850X SSD 2 TB M.2 2280 PCIe Gen4 NVMe (MSFS), Crucial MX500 2TB (Other stuff) | CASE: Forgeon Arcanite ARGB Mesh Tower ATX White | Power Supply: Forgeon Bolt PSU 850W 80+ Gold Full Modular White
May 15, 20233 yr Interesting stuff, thanks folks. I have also been wondering about terrain data. I seem to remember that in FSX the default GPS units could display a colored overlay of terrain height. I haven't been able to find this function on the MSFS default GPS units. Can they do that, or at least give minimum safe altitudes along a route?
May 15, 20233 yr Author 19 minutes ago, jhelix70 said: colored overlay of terrain height. When you are on the NAV Garmin 530 screen, you see on the bottom line GPS MSG NAV followed by five positions represented by small rectangles . The terrain feature is the third one that you reach turning the small knob on the right. Dominique Simming since 1981 - [email protected] GHz with 16 GB of RAM and a 1080 with 8 GB VRAM running a 27" @ 2560*1440 - Windows 10 - Warthog HOTAS - MFG pedals - MSFS Standard version with Steam
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