On 12/15/2025 at 4:46 PM, KERNEL32 said:

I wonder if

• the system creates snow on the ground in correct locations for time of year too?
• they say that there is an option to fly the whole route with the same "world wide" weather preset, but also we can fly with the correct / typical weather for the departure and arrival airports. But what about all the points in between? Are all of the stations along the route also "typical" weather?

Hopefully someone picks it up and can answer some of the ?'s in here 

It doesn't control ground snow but works well with snowy weather conditions to create the proper ground cover when it's snowing.

Yes, there is an Auto-update weather option which keeps the weather along the route updated and there is also flight plan destination awareness and logic.

23 hours ago, Paladin2005 said:

Yes, interesting for flying summer flights when its actually winter. Gives flexibility.

But how can i tell SimBrief that i do a summer flight with "typical" weather instead of taking the live winter weather now?

And how about live air traffic (FSLTL for example), where does it know where the wind comes in simulator?

1 hour ago, kiki said:

And how about live air traffic (FSLTL for example), where does it know where the wind comes in simulator?

Typical Weather isn't based on live or single-time-point historical data like existing/previous concepts. It's really something entirely different and new. SimBrief doesn't consider this kind of thing (yet, but it's something being explored). Other add-ons that use in-sim weather information including aloft wind layers should work just fine. Typical Weather has full surface and aloft data representation.

3 hours ago, Damian Clark said:

Yes, there is an Auto-update weather option which keeps the weather along the route updated and there is also flight plan destination awareness and logic.

So you'd possibly get different weather on departure, cruise and then arrival? 

If so that sounds cool, although I fly with live weather pretty much all the time I have been after a sort of "random" weather option to use when live weather isn't that great.

Edited December 17, 2025Dec 17 by MarcG

1 hour ago, Damian Clark said:

Typical Weather isn't based on live or single-time-point historical data like existing/previous concepts. It's really something entirely different and new. SimBrief doesn't consider this kind of thing (yet, but it's something being explored). Other add-ons that use in-sim weather information including aloft wind layers should work just fine. Typical Weather has full surface and aloft data representation.

Excuse me, but I still can’t quite understand. Would you, please, clarify this for me.

So, if the real weather is let’s say from SE, but with the TW it is from NW, ai traffic will take off and land with tailwind. And I should do that to avoid conflict with the traffic. Right?

Or does the TW effect at all on the winds?

Edited December 17, 2025Dec 17 by kiki

11 hours ago, MarcG said:

So you'd possibly get different weather on departure, cruise and then arrival? 

If so that sounds cool, although I fly with live weather pretty much all the time I have been after a sort of "random" weather option to use when live weather isn't that great.

Yep.

10 hours ago, kiki said:

Excuse me, but I still can’t quite understand. Would you, please, clarify this for me.

So, if the real weather is let’s say from SE, but with the TW it is from NW, ai traffic will take off and land with tailwind. And I should do that to avoid conflict with the traffic. Right?

Or does the TW effect at all on the winds?

If you're using the sim ATC or any ATC add-on that's using the proper in-sim weather conditions, it will be consistent as set by Typical Weather, which sets surface as well as aloft winds.

Anyone bought this yet? I am planning to, been busy with work. Any early impressions?

30 minutes ago, JonathanC said:

Anyone bought this yet? I am planning to, been busy with work. Any early impressions?

Should be on the MP soon.

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I originally took a look at this thread and thought "meh..." - But now that I see from comments above and from the //42 website that Damian Clark is involved with this product, I may have to re-consider!

1 hour ago, Barnes said:

I originally took a look at this thread and thought "meh..." - But now that I see from comments above and from the //42 website that Damian Clark is involved with this product, I may have to re-consider!

hah good catch, thought I recognised his name but didn't twig until you mentioned it 😄

I have a broader question about these weather apps/presets in general and how the interact with ATC, not just the built in one but also the likes of batc, does atc base its directions on the weather set in the sim even if it's custom or does that always direct based on live weather ignoring any custom weather add-on or otherwise?

 

 

I'm sorely tempted to give this a try but if I understand it correctly I don't think it'll fit my needs. Where I live in the north of england typical weather at this time of year is miserable, leaden skies and low visibility around Leeds Bradford airport, the exceptions are when its clear and crisp! I prefer to fly vfr so all too often the live conditions aren't suitable so I cobble together something a bit brighter. As I understand it "Typical Weather" will probably give me miserable flying conditions as that's typical for here. Does it offer any features that might make it more useful to someone like me?

I bought it (because I buy all weather-related products) and from the description "completely new approach to weather" I perhaps naively expected something more than setting the global weather based on local typical conditions. Nevertheless, the idea of using a climatologically derived typical weather for a time and region is quite ingenious and could be fantastic, had the MSFS weather system permitted more API interaction. Regarding the implementation, I still think that even with the limitations in place, more could be achieved. I flew between VYMD and VTSM (Indochina) and the typical weather was indeed mainly +TSRA, but the thunderstorms were just some mushy clouds with the tops around 20k feet and lightning shooting in all directions. The altitude winds though were very close to live weather, so perhaps some blending is going on inside.

1 hour ago, Riddlesdenlad said:

I'm sorely tempted to give this a try but if I understand it correctly I don't think it'll fit my needs. Where I live in the north of england typical weather at this time of year is miserable, leaden skies and low visibility around Leeds Bradford airport, the exceptions are when its clear and crisp! I prefer to fly vfr so all too often the live conditions aren't suitable so I cobble together something a bit brighter. As I understand it "Typical Weather" will probably give me miserable flying conditions as that's typical for here. Does it offer any features that might make it more useful to someone like me?

Excellent question. That's exactly what holding me back as well, although the product has caught my attention. I also mainly fly VFR; reading the product description I might get bad weather when I don't want it, like with MSFS real world weather. When real world weather is bad I usually select a theme to suit my VFR needs. It seems though, if I would choose Typical Weather, it could give me that bad weather as well, because it is the predominant weather type for the region. I'll keep this product on the fence a while.