As I have written recently about weather in XP 12 - here's another proof (not by me). That's what I call weather representation!!
As we know, flying through (thunderstorm) clouds in X-Plane IS dangerous and avoiding them a must. Please note: clouds cast shadows on themselves - and other clouds (not only the ground). Other than in ... I leave the rest to your imagination ... 😉 

 

 

Edited July 31, 2025Jul 31 by uwespeed

The weather technology in XP12 is soooo superior, I've found myself flying in those conditions too and is amazing. And soon with the greatest weather radar in v12.30 soon. 

Wow, that's the best representation of a thunderstorm system I've ever seen in a flight sim! Can't wait for the upcoming weather radar!

Wow! Simply WoooooW !!!

On 7/31/2025 at 9:40 PM, alexcolka said:

The weather technology in XP12 is soooo superior, I've found myself flying in those conditions too and is amazing. And soon with the greatest weather radar in v12.30 soon. 

 

23 hours ago, Murmur said:

Wow, that's the best representation of a thunderstorm system I've ever seen in a flight sim! ...

 

7 hours ago, jcomm said:

Wow! Simply WoooooW !!!

Shhhhh ... a little quieter, please 😉 - some people might feel offened by that 😄. 

 

23 hours ago, Murmur said:

Can't wait for the upcoming weather radar!

And according to the announcements by Laminar, it will be ...

23 hours ago, Murmur said:

... the best representation of a thunderstorm system I've ever seen in a flight sim!

... not thunderstorm but weather radar (fixed that for you 🙂)

Another thunderstorm video of XP 12 - although (debatable?) not exactly as impressive as the one in my first post of this thread. But still: as impressive as no other civilian flight sim 😉 can depict it.

 

 

Is this behaviour realistic??

Edited August 1, 2025Aug 1 by FPVSteve

2 hours ago, FPVSteve said:

Is this behaviour realistic??

What I noticed, there is very little inertia in the handling.  It flies almost like a C172.  Just my opinion, though.  

Anything else, I'll leave that to the Airbus pilots.

Edited August 2, 2025Aug 2 by GoranM

Interesting video - I do not have MS2020 or its later counterpart. Then I have never held a type endorsement on an Airbus - flown in them heaps as a passenger. Observation, high mountain country tropical with lots of cumulus and buildups - even shaft showers ( a downdraft indication) evident - but no turbulence effects on the model in the sim none. General roll and pitch seemed about right for speed and inertia as to systems cannot comment. 

Nice graphics all up. The sim foul up at the beginning was amusing! 

As for real world aviation - if I was the examiner giving this guy a check ride he would have failed. But he would have failed before Go Around that because there was an issue with landing runway being occupied by another aircraft and yet the he persisted with the approach, in other word he committed himself to a go around after the missed approach point!  - no comms to anyone either tower or appropriate frequency. He was off slope several times failed to call correcting or to verbalise it! Now the Go around was handled incorrectly there is a standard pitch up and thrust application generally by hitting the go round red button the throttle handles if not it is a known formula of pitch up, power up, gear up and then begin flap retraction to climb setting. You call the go round! Next you do not OVERFLY the runway that is occupied like that you move off centreline to the right of the strip to minmise the risk of a collision with the aircraft should it be taking off! And no turn until you have the traffic identified and its intentions known IF he was real Airbus driver the Go Round SOPs would be ingrained - that is automatic. Smooth and without panic! Your just going around you do not have an emergency you just got to go and do the approach all over again - so now you can aviate, navigate and communicate. And as I am now a crusty old b who did this for real, it was interesting entertainment but poor airmanship. As for the sim well confirms my personal assessment leaves it unchanged. Bad case of get in it is was demonstrated as well - something you got to knock out of GA guys when they fly for a living!

So yes it is just a desktop simulater - just pointing out the difference between sim flying and real world flying! 

Edited August 2, 2025Aug 2 by coastaldriver

Appreciate the "Been there, done that (properly), got the T-shirt" educational input.

I can well understand the need to "knock out" the Get-Home-itis" from us GA. "The Force is strong Luke, the Force is strong !"

Thanks Tim 

4 hours ago, coastaldriver said:

 Observation, high mountain country tropical with lots of cumulus and buildups - even shaft showers ( a downdraft indication) evident - but no turbulence effects on the model in the sim none. General roll and pitch seemed about right for speed and inertia as to systems cannot comment. 

Yes - where is the turbulence? It's one of the reasons why MSFS feels so "on rails". I would have expected it to look a lot less comfortable up there.

The weather depictions provided at the start - are amazingly authentic! Second one not so much the colouring and shading is off way to dark, a more uniform grey is natural unless of course we are looking at the base of the CB - seen some pretty lurid colours on CB's under the right conditions - Moonsoonal Northern Australia - you can run up a line CB's that runs for 300 nm and looks like a Chinese lantern show, reds, green, yellow purple you name it amazing to se really. It is was green or purple you want to keep right away - they were really nasty CB's and Thunderstorms - violent! Had a former acquaintance punting a C206 in Derby WA experience it first hand got picked up trying to go underneath - spat him out at F300. 

Yes I am constantly impressed and how well Laminar have got this facet of the sim working! Full credit to them! Never seen a sim like this one just a brilliant bit of kit!

13 hours ago, FPVSteve said:

Is this behaviour realistic??

As Cpt BB711 pointed out, it has not enough inertia and almost stops immediately when doing a turn (a bit like a very light aircraft or a fighterjet). On the other side the Toliss seems to have a bit too much of inertia...

Edited August 2, 2025Aug 2 by Franz007

17 hours ago, FPVSteve said:

Is this behaviour realistic??

Looks like Asobo should review their slope updraft modeling. Maybe cut it by a factor of ten or so.

I mostly fly glider tasks in FS 2024 these days - turns out to be my preferred sim for that purpose these days, even ahead of Condor, for various reasons I will not elaborate because we're at XP's land, but using Presets soaring weather can be made a lot more realistic.

Some presets by GotFriends tune aloft updrafts by modulating the wind speed at the lower levels because otherwise FS 2024 can appear to model wave when it really does not...

Edited August 3, 2025Aug 3 by jcomm