Heads up guys. The Dev Q&A is happening this Wednesday, so get your questions in asap if you haven't already!

I also want to thank all of you who have submitted questions already. I really appreciate you guys.

Well I really thought it would be happening next week but it looks like they're ready to roll.

2 hours ago, Bdub22 said:

My fear, and I guess what I strangely hope for, is that they're saving major weather updates for the next version of MSFS. Weather, that is in 2028 or 2030. See what I did there? I'll see myself out.

The way I see things going is the next version of Flight Simulation (2028, 2032), may not be for PC's but consoles only. The direction Asobo is continuing going is the console only game. All the graphics and settings options we had in 2020 are no longer an option in 2024. It's either we deal with the dumbed down console options or move on to something else.

This is what I sent:

It would be nice to see proper storm clouds with Towering Cumulonimbus with tops above 45000 feet like real thunderstorms. It appears that this is possible with the game and weather engine but is rarely depicted properly in live weather scenarios outside of hurricanes. Are there any plans to make thunderstorms more dangerous and realistic. It's very underwhelming when you break out of thunderstorms and none of them are taller than 15,000 feet and they are small.

Weather is now the item that is the most important to improve. Are there any plans to make the clouds stop being transparent even when they are large enough they would not be transparent in real life?

Are there any plans to make high overcast more accurate? I know clouds are tied to METARS, and in the US CLR or CAVOK means fair below 12,000 feet. But there are more tools that give cloud tops and bases for all layers of the atmosphere. The sim is great but I think we were all wanting to see weather depiction improvement. We know the sim is capable of it. Presets can create fantastic weather but the live weather always underplays the amount of layers as well as the amount and size of clouds.

3 hours ago, Bigmack said:

The way I see things going is the next version of Flight Simulation (2028, 2032), may not be for PC's but consoles only.

There's a question in itself.

I asked for:
1.) Real CB depicition Live Weather including the characteristic anvil and hail
2.) Better local snow depiction
3.) Improved transition of seasons, so that we can see fresh green gras in Italy etc. in April

I went for a more general question, although I put in one for better CB depiction as well:

"Large threads on the forums discuss Live Weather issues for years. Would you finally consider to acknowledge the discussion and elaborate on your goals and probable obstacles?"

5 hours ago, Bigmack said:

The way I see things going is the next version of Flight Simulation (2028, 2032), may not be for PC's but consoles only.

I don't see that coming. At least not in the near future. Maybe there will be separate versions for consoles at some time. But if the PC goes, many users will go. Expecially the hardcore ones, who buy many many addons.

After many years of flightsimming and software like active sky I was so happy I could really fly into weather systems.
Like see the overcast layer in the distance and fly into it.

But recently I am getting so bored with MSFS 2024 Live Weather, all the clouds everywhere look exactly the same.

Last week I installed Active Sky again, and I never saw so many different cloud formations.

I hope Asobe can not do this better sometime in the future!

7 hours ago, fppilot said:

Agree but it is more like blown in attic insulation....

A little more grey and you have msfs2024 clouds (50% of the time). Hit n miss hit n miss.

7 hours ago, Krakin said:

Heads up guys. The Dev Q&A is happening this Wednesday, so get your questions in asap if you haven't already!

I also want to thank all of you who have submitted questions already. I really appreciate you guys.

Well I really thought it would be happening next week but it looks like they're ready to roll.

Just submitted a weather question! Thanks for posting this link!

I asked for :

• more cloud types / improved cloud transparency

• the multi monitor feature like it was in MSFS2020, so you can make adjustments and see it in realtime from within the cockpit, instead lookinjg at the menu with no external views.

Visibility and runway lighting when low vis during day 1000% need attention.

9 hours ago, rob0203 said:

After many years of flightsimming and software like active sky I was so happy I could really fly into weather systems.
Like see the overcast layer in the distance and fly into it.

But recently I am getting so bored with MSFS 2024 Live Weather, all the clouds everywhere look exactly the same.

Last week I installed Active Sky again, and I never saw so many different cloud formations.

I hope Asobe can not do this better sometime in the future!

REX in FSX was all about 100's of cloud familys. Not sure I want to go through selecting them again.

dd

I asked for runway lighting based upon visibility, not just day/night cycle, and asked for more cloud types, particularly stratus.

Fog/Haze outside of metar areas. Unlimited visibility outside metar areas is a complete joke for a flight sim.