April 2, 20251 yr In the last couple of days I started playing around with X-Plane 12 again. It had been on hold for a while while testing the INIBUILDS A350 in the cloudy sim. I picked a few airports to make my test flights with the A300-600 and the Beluga I took the opportunity to install using IniManager, and both at LPPT and then at airports I searched for filtering for thunderstorm weather, some with multiple clouds layers, some broken or even OVC I found just a few cumulus when Xp12 downloads real weather, and confirmed through it's weather GUI that indeed the layers downloaded and displayed were made of few Cu s ? Tested at 3 different airports and the same happened. Did any of you notice the same? Strangely at LPPT the same happened in FS 2024... Might it be due to some problems with the NOAA feeds? Edited April 2, 20251 yr by jcomm Flying gliders since 1980 Flightsimming since 1992 AMD Ryzen 5600x, 32GB RAM, GPU Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti 8 GB, 1 TB and 500 GB nvme2 SSD drives, HP 27" 60Hz LED monitor @ 1920x1080, T16000, Hotas from old X52 Pro, Saitek Combat Rudder Pro (2010 model)
April 8, 20251 yr I've experienced this often as of late. Even with the major recent change with the clouds in 12.2.0... the real metar will say OVC010 but it will be almost clear all around the airport. Wonder where their metar source is? | My Liveries | FAA ZMP | PPL ASEL | | Windows 11 | MSI Z690 Tomahawk | 12700K 4.7GHz | MSI RTX 4080 | 64GB 6000 MHz DDR5 | 500GB Samsung 860 Evo SSD | 2x 2TB Samsung 970 Evo M.2 | EVGA 850W Gold | Corsair 5000X | HP G2 (VR) / LG 27" 1440p |
April 9, 20251 yr Author I am now very away from my SIM rig but on Monday it wasn't that different from reality as it had been the past days, at least at the airfields I tried. I believe the source for X-Plane is NOAA, and with all of the "restructuring" going on in that institution maybe it could impact access to their services, just like it happened around 2008 and in 2016... ☹️ But the strange thing is that it also affected MSFS and as far as we are told it still relies on meteoblue that's strange, unless they now also have NOAA as their feed (?) Anyway, not saying it's NOAA's the source of these inconsistencies because I didn't grab their data for a comparative analysis and it could well be to unrelated quirks with both xp and msfs weather code. Edited April 9, 20251 yr by jcomm Flying gliders since 1980 Flightsimming since 1992 AMD Ryzen 5600x, 32GB RAM, GPU Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti 8 GB, 1 TB and 500 GB nvme2 SSD drives, HP 27" 60Hz LED monitor @ 1920x1080, T16000, Hotas from old X52 Pro, Saitek Combat Rudder Pro (2010 model)
April 9, 20251 yr Yes in the past few 2-3 months the weather hasn‘t been as acurate as it used to be. I also noticed that. As far as I know fine-tuning the weather (again) will be part of 12.3. i9 12900k, RTX 3090, 32GB RAM
April 9, 20251 yr 9 hours ago, jcomm said: But the strange thing is that it also affected MSFS and as far as we are told it still relies on meteoblue that's strange, unless they now also have NOAA as their feed (?) Meteoblue uses a lot of different sources, NOAA being one of them as far as I know. i9 12900k, RTX 3090, 32GB RAM
April 9, 20251 yr Author 43 minutes ago, Franz007 said: Meteoblue uses a lot of different sources, NOAA being one of them as far as I know. True. Flying gliders since 1980 Flightsimming since 1992 AMD Ryzen 5600x, 32GB RAM, GPU Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti 8 GB, 1 TB and 500 GB nvme2 SSD drives, HP 27" 60Hz LED monitor @ 1920x1080, T16000, Hotas from old X52 Pro, Saitek Combat Rudder Pro (2010 model)
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