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35 minutes ago, fppilot said:

Perhaps I was not clear.  The crux of what I feel is that the methods of determining what the sim is actually throwing at you in the way of barometric pressure realistically comes down (no pun intended) to landing and then pressing the B key and viewing where the the pressure reading settles on the altimeter.  ATIS/AWOS are unreliable, do not match metar reports, and most often the sim does not match the reports.  So it is realistically the only way to tell, and on the destination end of a flight the only reliable way to see.  I have often witnessed three outcomes.  ATIS, metar, and B key.  All different at the same time.

Yes, it's a bit of a mess. As ATIS is many times wrong, what I do is checking the METAR in the live weather window to know the pressure before landing. It usually works for me. 

Alvega

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12 hours ago, MrBitstFlyer said:

Try xEnviro, it will please you even more!

70 $? It costs more than the sim itself... I pass for now, thanks 🙂

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17 hours ago, Alvega said:

what I do is checking the METAR in the live weather window to know the pressure before landing

Ha!  That is the point at which we reached an argument.  MSFS is not always producing for you the pressure that is in the metar, or in the ATIS.  It's like facing a great major league baseball pitcher who has a respectible curve ball, a sinker, and unknown to you, a slider.   MSFS gives you ATIS (use curve here), it gives you METAR (use sinker here).  The pitch on the way to the plate may be some other pitch you did not know he had.  Your teammate on the bag at second base is ready to signal to you what is coming, a curve (ATIS), or sinker (METAR), but you may instead face an unexpected slider 🙂  The B key is the umpire.....  But really only after you have landed.

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