Flying locally this morning in Southern New Jersey & I noticed a smoky haze across and East of an area where there is an active bush fire.

We are getting the high-altitude smoke from Canada, & the drift from a local bush fire to the West of here.

Does Live Weather have the ability to show smoke drift, because that is what I feel I am seeing.

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What we know for sure is that air pollution can be depicted.

MSFS is depicting the smoke for sure. The last few days in RI have been bad.

Absolutely it's depicting the haze in NJ.  Visibility is really bad here and MSFS weather is right on point.

 

Edited June 7, 20232 yr by jaybird1nyc

I have been flying around Delhi, India for the last week and everytime I approach the airport its always hazy, probably depicting the smoke.

9 hours ago, Steve_Ellis said:

I have been flying around Delhi, India for the last week and everytime I approach the airport its always hazy, probably depicting the smoke.

India has major air quality issues during most of the year. That Canadian smoke won’t have got anywhere near India yet. More likely it will be picked up by the jet stream and arrive in Western Europe in the days to come.

9 hours ago, Steve_Ellis said:

I have been flying around Delhi, India for the last week and everytime I approach the airport its always hazy, probably depicting the smoke.

Indeed, one time I landed there and thank god the plane could autoland, because there was literally zero visibility.

It's quite simple actually: If the metar of a given airport says it has a low visibiliy, then MSFS will show low visibility. MSFS doesn't care if that low visibility is caused by fog, smog, smoke or whatever.

24 minutes ago, Ray Proudfoot said:

India has major air quality issues during most of the year. That Canadian smoke won’t have got anywhere near India yet. More likely it will be picked up by the jet stream and arrive in Western Europe in the days to come.

Oh God. What with the highly dangerous 30 degree temperatures for which the Met Office is issuing warnings, we are doomed then. 🤣

Indonesia has palm tree burn offs every year and according to my son who lives in Singapore, the smoke haze hits there first  before finding its way up to Thailand. Last year some airfields in the Phuket resort area of Thailand were closed due to smoke haze.  I'm planning to visit Phuket in a couple months so i hope we don't have a repeat!!

But yeah, smoke is a big part of the aviation experience in some parts of the world.  it would be good to simulate it.                       

33 minutes ago, Ray Proudfoot said:

India has major air quality issues during most of the year. That Canadian smoke won’t have got anywhere near India yet.

In some places, it's far worse.

 

2 hours ago, F737MAX said:

In some places, it's far worse.

 

The difference is the Canada / USA situation is temporary. The Indian sub-continent one is more or less permanent.

I flew to Goderich, Ontario (CYGD) on Monday to video record the start of the Give Hope Wings Eastern Canada expedition. Give Hope Wings is a charity that funds flights for patients to fly from remote areas to larger Canadian cities for medical procedures. Visibility was marginal VFR due to the smoke concentration. The photos show 5-7 SM visibility. These photos are at 2500 MSL. Unfortunately, the last half of the tour was cancelled yesterday due to smoke, icing and storms in the Maritimes.

 

Edited June 8, 20232 yr by The Flight Level

2 hours ago, Ray Proudfoot said:

The difference is the Canada / USA situation is temporary. The Indian sub-continent one is more or less permanent.

That 'temporary' is just getting started as it's not even summer yet and the burn season in Canada (and the US West) now runs well into late fall and beyond, or nearly year round.