JRBarrett
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I am in the SU7 beta program and have not received the 7.1 update. (I have the Store version). I left and re-entered the beta twice in the X-Box Insider Hub, with reboots between, and have left my PC running for several hours, but am still stuck on 1.9.18.0 I also opened the Windows Store and clicked on the check for updates button, but nothing MSFS-related has downloaded.
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There is no question that MSFS clouds can use improvements - especially in the area of convective buildups where XP is far ahead. That said, (at least for me), Live Weather clouds have looked much better in the last couple of months than previously. I’m 99 percent certain that MSFS has been using real-time satellite data to enhance the cloud depiction and placement for quite some time. I always fly with my aircraft connected to Foreflight, and enable enhanced satellite imagery overlaid on my FP route. The correspondence between what FF shows and the clouds that MSFS injects are often surprisingly close most of the time. At least over the US where I do the bulk of my sim flying.
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This exact thing happened over the US northeast a few weeks ago. An altostratus deck with an absolutely straight cut off edge for dozens of miles. It was so strange looking that it even made all the local news reports. In the sim it may well be a “bug”, but it is a “bug” that does occur in natural cloud formations. I saw it myself when it happened. Edge
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An area of subsidence in a stratocumulus layer can produce that effect. I flew yesterday as a passenger from Florida to upstate NY at FL360 and saw something very similar over North Carolina. I cannot say that in the OP’s screen capture that it was not caused by an underlying METAR station, but that would be hard to prove one way or another not knowing where the shot was taken. Here is another r/w photo showing subsidence in a thin layer that is perfectly square. Square MSFS clouds are by no means “perfect”, and I have certainly seen cloudscapes that are outlandishly wrong, but this original screen capture is not in that category. I do think XP often does a much better job with overall atmospheric lighting.
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I have spent a long time looking closely at your image, and don’t see anything even slightly “unnatural” about the shape or distribution of the sim clouds. That is a very realistic depiction of how a solid overcast often looks from above. Here are a couple of r/w photos showing a similar “look” Clouds More clouds
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Since Horizon is a wholly owned subsidiary of Alaska Airlines, they probably have full access to to proprietary approach procedures that were originally developed (and paid for) by Alaska.
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It is the XBOX server infrastructure which is having problems. It is not just MSFS - all XBOX games are affected on both consoles and PCs
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If it were an easy problem to solve, it would have been addressed by now. The fact that it hasn’t been addressed probably indicates that the root cause is something so fundamental to the way that the MSFS graphics engine works that it may not have a solution without some kind of major change to the rendering system.
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I have a feeling that these approaches may not remain in Navigraph’s database for long if Alaska becomes aware of them. Although the charts are not included, one could reverse-engineer most of the chart from the information contained in the AIRAC. That is what the (now discontinued) Aivlasoft EFB did to generate approach charts within the program.
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I do like the appearance of LIDO charts. At one point in the past, Navigraph did use LIDO charts.
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I thought one of the other posters said DND is NOT in LIDO. (It is in Jeppesen). I have never tried the default LIDO charts in MSFS since I use Navigraph.
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Ah! A case where there might be enough airline traffic there for LIDO to have made a chart pack for DND
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Navigraph definitely does have charts for Dundee, Scotland. IATA code DND
