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Live Weather Inaccurate / not working
Peter Clark replied to FlyingInACessna's topic in Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020)
My money is it got rushed when Halo Infinite got delayed and they still needed a flagship title for the next gen XBOX and this was the closest thing they had to release in the pipeline. But that’s just my gut feeling. -
Live Weather Inaccurate / not working
Peter Clark replied to FlyingInACessna's topic in Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020)
In FAA land METAR is only hourly unless something changes significantly enough to force a SPECI. The problem here is the use of Meteoblue forecast model as the weather source. Everyone and their brother in FAA or ICAO expects conditions to be per METAR, not some forecast model that may or may not be even close to what’s going on, and in my experience with this sim and living within a class D surface area, not even close to what’s out my window or reported in the METAR. In fact, METAR is the regulatory authoritative data source. FAA AC 00-45F says; 3.1.1 Aviation Routine Weather Report (METAR) Aviation Routine Weather Report (METAR) is the primary observation code used in the U. S. to satisfy World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) requirements for reporting surface meteorological data. 3.1.2 Aviation Selected Special Weather Report (SPECI) An Aviation Selected Special Weather Report (SPECI) is an unscheduled report taken when any of the criteria given in Table 3-1 are observed during the interim period between the hourly reports. Evidence suggests they’re not taking the METAR or winds aloft balloon observations and integrating it into the sim metoblue or something. I find it disappointing considering what they could have done by amalgamating a lot of free data with the meteoblue forecast to generate the atmospherics in the sim. -
Generally, put into the FMC flight plan what you filed (generally it includes an arrival) and once you receive “cleared to (blah) via (blah) then as filed” covers your question - your departure clearance covers the arrival. If something changes enroute you just update the computer as you indicate. For example; routine route filing for KBOS to KMCO: SSOXS5 SSOXS BUZRD SEY HTO J174 ORF J121 CHS IGARY Q85 LPERD OMN CWRLD4 Clearance delivery at BOS would clear you to Orlando via the SSOXS5 departure, then as filed. So CWRLD4 with OMN transition goes into the box. if you only filed to OMN without the arrival, leave it blank because you were not cleared for an arrival so it would route OMN direct. ATC may assign you an arrival (or change it) at any time.
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I’m sure A/N ranges and sextants were fun too, but time marches on 😉
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Unrest in the Sim Community
Peter Clark replied to Scottoest's topic in Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020)
Lockmart also runs FSS nowadays so does a lot of work for GA. -
Unrest in the Sim Community
Peter Clark replied to Scottoest's topic in Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020)
To be honest, I think the more appropriate comparison would be buggy whip manufacturers when the first motorized cars first appeared. -
November 27th, 2019 – Development Update
Peter Clark replied to ArchStanton's topic in Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020)
I seem to have heard him say they had CAD files from certain manufacturers as well. -
I’d like to see the time drift and bad timezones/daylight saving issues fixed. You really shouldn’t need a tool like FSRealtime to keep the sim synced with the clock, and it doesn’t fix DST changes..
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What would you like the "Testers" to Test?
Peter Clark replied to Keyholebud's topic in Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020)
Didn’t X-Plane claim they model a pt6 correctly in 11.40+ with experimental mode on? -
Slap an “experimental” label on it and you’re good to go.
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PMDG NGXu support
Peter Clark replied to airlinetycoon's topic in Remote CDU for Phone / Tablet Official Support Forum
Of the RemoteCDU or the PMDG aircraft? If it’s the latter they said that for a while (undefined) anyone who buys the NGXu gets the MSFS version free. -
How many Alpha Techs before Beta
Peter Clark replied to nas123's topic in Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020)
I subscribe to Holiday 2020 myself. Gives them a year to nail down the initial feature list and get things prepped for maybe having something ready to run on the XBOX Scarlett platform which is slated for Oct 2020 if the E3 trailer is anything to go by. https://www.tomsguide.com/us/next-xbox-release-date-rumors,news-27484.html