Howdy guys,Just me with another "bright idea". I can hear the groans now! :7I always seem to get these flashes of inspiration as I'm working my flights. I realize that this is probably a day late and a dollar short for the suggestion box but you can always file it for the next version. Was just thinking about the possibility of the tower controller issuing wind shear advisories if conditions warrant.Mike CollierKPHX[table border=1 bgcolor=#eeeeee][tr][td rowspan=2] http://avsim.com/flightdeck/images/Radar_small.gif[/td][td]http://www.dispatcher.org|Dispatcher' target="_blank"> America West Airlines and proud to be a Beta Tester of[link:www.jdtllc.com]Radar Contact]The premiere ATC adventure add-on for FS

Mike,I agree, it's a good idea (as I figured out as I slammed into the runway a few days ago when the weather suddenly changed right at the threshold).The problem is that FS2000 and FS2002 is all-or-nothing weather. There's no fronts, no wind shift (unless by a sheer stroke of coincidence the reporting station changes right then at the end of the runway) and no way to see the next station. With something like FS_Meteo, you have one weather set, and more often than not, it is locked to the departure or destination airport or closest station. So the winds don't change once locked. This is, again, a problem with FS, not FS_Meteo. To me it's the biggest problem with 2K/2K2.Here was the case. I did an emergency return to the departure airport, and since FS_Meteo was set to lock at my destination, the weather could change between reporting stations. In my case I was returning to my own Scottland Resort, which is dead center between Colorado Springs and Pueblo stations. The end of 17 is in Colorado Springs. The end of 35 is in Pueblo. So the weather went, quite literally, instantly from clear and calm, to Massively strong thunderstorms and rain. I couldn't see this landing on 17. When I did a missed approach, the second I overflew the threshold of 35, the sky went from perfectly clear to total overcast and rain. Instantly. And the winds shifted exactly 180 degrees.There was no way for Radar Contact, or any program for that matter, to see this until I was in it because it didn't exist yet.That's the problem with FS. It's all-or-nothing weather. One station at a time. There's no seeing the t-storms over one station from another. In my case it was almost catastrophic, and having wind-shear warnings would have been great.Not going to happen.This is also why things like weather radar in FS2K/2K2 is useless. I keep hoping they'll fix this and bring back fronts and distant storms and real visual weather changes from FS98. But I'm not holding my breath.

Scott,Wow! I'm glad I wasn't flying right seat with you on that one! :7I actually wasn't thinking in terms quite that detailed, but I can certainly see how FS would be a limiting factor in something like that. Actually, all I was thinking about was if the winds at the airport of intended landing were stronger than "X"-knots, and/or gusting wind conditions were present, that would "trigger" the tower controller to give windshear advisories. Did you happen to read my last response to you on that DP/STAR thread that was going a few days back? Just wanted to make sure that I hadn't offended you in any way and to let you know that I wasn't trying to come off as a "know-it-all". I keep finding that there's too much I don't know to be one of those! :7Cya! :-waveMike CollierKPHX[table border=1 bgcolor=#eeeeee][tr][td rowspan=2] http://avsim.com/flightdeck/images/Radar_small.gif[/td][td]http://www.dispatcher.org|Dispatcher' target="_blank"> America West Airlines and proud to be a Beta Tester of[link:www.jdtllc.com]Radar Contact]The premiere ATC adventure add-on for FS

Mike,No offense taken. You're too nice a guy to be offensive. ;-) Now Sidney on the other hand... :-lol :-lol (KIDDING! I'm KIDDING!)

Mike, The next version of FSMeteo will capture weather from nearby stations, this is something they are working on for FSFlightmax to make sense.. you can read this in the Flightmax Forum. The weather engine per se will not get updated, but FSMeteo will store the conditions from this nearby stations in a buffer so you can query them. Well, actually NOBODY told me this, This was the way I tought it worked and posted it as a comment and John Hindec responded that it was exactly what they were doing.