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Yeah, it's priorities and might even be engine limitation too. Does anyone recall how quickly Asobo responded when someone hacked their sky color code? They actually included a patched sky color in their next update! Was it because someone was able to hack the code? Or was it because the sky color "issues" went "viral"? I tend to think the latter... speak up enough and they will react!

Did a search in here and surprised that I did not find any reference to this, it's really neat and a great boost to immersion! https://bushtalkradio.com/ Especially like the radio stations and how distance affects static etc. Really cool!

Yeah, I wish someone could come up with something like Autohaze (XP12) but for MSFS, I love this free addon! https://forums.x-plane.org/files/file/99665-autohaze/

Thanks @Litjan ! Thought I messed something up really bad somehow... glad to hear it may not have been me!

ok I don't know what is going on, but I am not getting ANY rain, precip, thunderstorms, nothing. There's clouds, and they resemble what might be the look of a storm or rain coming, but nothing. Radar is always also precipitation free, always! I am running the latest BETA.. but I even installed a "clean" seperate version of x-plane (updated but NOT beta) and still nothing. I have the setting to real world weather, anyone have any ideas what might be going on?

For repaints yes, I can see where BATC might alias white models (not sure they do though?) but what about missing/un-matched models?

it might help, yes but keep in mind I don't think AIG (or anyone) has ALL of the real work aircraft you may encounter. So unless someone models every aircraft possible, we probably won't ever see 100% of the traffic. I'm not sure if BATC uses any alias though. If they do, that would also help!

Also keep in mind that if you don't have the model/repaint I'm not sure those aircraft will display. I know there have been some GA aircraft I studied on FR24 that didn't show in MSFS and I think this is why. Otherwise, it's been solid. BATC just needs to keep their heads down and work on separation, for example start where it's easier - at cruise FL380 and aircraft coming at me head on. I'm not sure which is the appropriate pilot for ATC to "ask" to either change altitude or turn but someone needs to! It's not a game of chicken. I realize other scenarios aren't nearly as easy to detect and correct - but why not start there?

One thing I just noticed thats neat, is in bad weather areas (I'm over Texas right now) there's no traffic in this area, feel like I shouldn't here here LOL. Now, if BATC could just get some traffic avoidance programmed into their system - after all that is what ATC is mainly about right? Traffic separation :) But I like what I see so far..

Works great so far!

BATC Live Traffic released in experimental branch - going to try this! https://wiki.beyondatc.net/knowledge-base/live-traffic/

Don't recall if I ever had that one if I do it's buried in my attic. How about this? https://www.myabandonware.com/game/scenery-disk-12-3bo

okay then! wow..

Yes I'd like to see that too - guess I missed it too? I read every day here.

The live weather is one of the only things I wish Asobo would either allow other companies to expand on (i.e. open the code up to AS or whoever), or if they just cannot give it up then for them to do a major overhaul on weather. It's not horrible by any means the way it is now, but in certain situations it's very repetitive or depiction looks the same in one part of the world versus another. Seems like the system almost always uses cumulus version of clouds, and yesterday I had these terrible looking very dark cumulus clouds around San Diego KSAN that were atrocious! Other times, the weather can look pretty good. Still missing towering cumulus, cumulonimbus, supercells, etc. as well.

I just happened to be reading this article from last September, and noticed that Meteoblue is a "Windy.com" company. Has it been like this for a long time? I wonder if that will improve the data, make no difference, or hinder it? https://flightsimulator.blog/microsoft-flight-simulator-live-weather/

I love watching a lot of these free tools turn into payware, my prediction is we'll see it with this tool as well. Not being negative here, I think it's great and interesting to watch these things morph into something that peeps will pay for. It's economy in action! I've no interest in it, but looks cool!

Just made a flight this morning hearing ATC call "Spirit Airlines" and thought to myself, "wow it would be great if BATC could take advantage of the Navigraph live data" LOL!

Right click community folder, choose "properties" then sharing..

I don't have the add on and not sure if it even uses it, but how about the exe file, is it referenced there? Again might not even need to be - just trying to give an option to help. It's like it cannot find either the models of the ships, or the route files. Have you changed anything in community folder (not even sure it uses that either, but assume it has to?). I know you said that you ensured they were enabled but that is "in game" correct? Have you checked the actual community folder (it might supposed to be in the packages official2024 folder)

The video titled "What have they done to my beautiful sim weather?" NOTHING. More people are just noticing how the weather in MSFS is really starting to show it's "age". All Asobo needs to do is bring out the weather code from before MSFS2020 SU5 (and keep the current accuracy of rain/thunderstorm locations, up/down draft modifications, improved lightning), and that should do it. MSFS2020 live weather pre SU5 used to have it all, towering cumulus, super cell, high clouds, fronts, organic weather worldwide (no cloud shifts / clouds disappearing or reappearing out of nowhere). I wished I would have kept my screenshots and videos I made! They even used to have "dynamic" windshield rain drop / wind effects that were physics driven, not the current word not allowed it is now (like some baked in GIF or something, just repeats over and over).

With the recent exception of in cloud updrafts/turbulence, there have been *zero* changes to the clouds, cloud structure or anything to do with clouds. Unless Asobo announced something that I missed? (somewhat likely). But other than updates to enhance/fix lightning about 1 year ago, I've not heard of any changes to weather. Placebo effect here?

@Krakin I meant to include this too and finally had time to re-watch this stream to capture the statement. Here is where I think I misunderstood what Seb was saying: https://youtu.be/iA_b1BX60kw?list=PLHHNa7e7hf9MqQB-RV6bxHYiLcTQkgGfi&t=1455 Also here https://youtu.be/vS14eQEFMVU?list=PLHHNa7e7hf9MqQB-RV6bxHYiLcTQkgGfi&t=3903 "but I think in order to go further we need a bigger rework of the cloud system" - I took that basically as "not happening". But he really never said that. It was my assumption. Also he says repeatably about getting it higher on the wishlist. So let's all work on that!

Yep you got me there Krakin - so what I swear that I thought I listened to, I guess I didn't have enough coffee that day. I went through literally the last 4 or 5 dev updates insisting he said that... but you are correct. Sorry about that. But I can say for sure after watching many of dev updates today that he has been consistent in saying "once the bugs are mostly cleared up", and "keep voting on the wishlist", "get it to the top of the wishlist".

Yeah, unfortunately I don't think we'll EVER get any kind of "visual" weather updates in MSFS2024, even Seb said it himself. I believe they have mentioned that there are limitations in the engine that will prevent that. And, much like prior dev updates they skirted around the question about true "visual" cloud and visibility updates and instead pushed that they implemented up/down drafts inside of a storm cloud and weather radar improvements. That's great and all, but the problem with that is #1 storm clouds (i.e. supercells or stand alone high top thunderstorms) are non-existant in live weather and #2 even if using a storm as a preset the turbulence effect is not strong at all. So what is the point in an improved 3d weather radar if there are no realistic storms to avoid anyway? Cloud tops 10k? Blahh. Don't get me wrong, it was still great to hear them again and they are trying to improve what they can. I just don't think it's possible within the limits of the current engine, and sharing the code with x-box performance limitations.