SnakeP

This is just painfully wrong. It’s not just the wind, but other parameters often don’t match their real-world counterparts as well, not even close. The UK is an exception for me (at least most of the time), but in the US I hardly ever have a match in temperature, pressure and wind on the ground. I see some clouds, though, even though they’re quite often not at altitudes where they’re supposed to be. Yes, I know how to enable “Live Weather” in the settings, yes, I know that certain deviations are completely acceptable within the sim, and yes, it also happens on the very first flight...

Talking about this and other issues got MS/Asobo to admit that there’s a problem in the first place. How people here are trying to shush others for raising their voice is beyond me! If we were only being quiet and enjoy the beautiful looks of this Microsoft Scenery Simulator, nothing would ever get the attention of the devs. Oh, and fyi, the problem with the Live Weather has been reported since TA1 and nobody cared to do anything about it. Only publicity is getting things to be changed.

Just went through your post again and I have another question for you: How do you "plan" a flight without knowing what the weather will be like in the sim? How do you know, for instance, how much fuel to put into your plane? Bottom line (at least for me): There needs to be a common ground regarding weather conditions if you want to fly online and together with pilots using other simulators--and that's real-time (or live) weather. Period. And don't forget, they advertised their "Live Weather" engine (or implementation, respectively), I'm only trying to hold them accountable for what they advertised very clearly and very loudly. If they only wanted to deliver "Weather", then fair enough, I would be quiet. But they shouldn't have advertised anything else in this case.

Just quoting myself here, not to be put into a corner like "this guy is whining about the weather not working anywhere in the world". If you read the posts by people in the official forum, you'd see that even in Europe it doesn't work accurately the whole time with the wind changing abruptly from accurate values to 225/3 mid flight.

You are kidding me, aren't you?! Well, at least I hope you do! Just one(!) very simple example for you, "Dude" 😉: If there's wind 225/3 at FL360 for a MSFS pilot and there're two planes behind you (one on P3D, the other on XP) on the same airway and the same altitude (FL360), the controller will most likely assign a certain speed to the others, so that they won't bump into you. Since they're both on live weather, they both have a 89 kts tailwind--what's going to happen in this case...? No, but it will, quite significantly even.

How some people here are able to enjoy VATSIM (or IVAO) in MSFS is beyond me! You are supposed to use real-time (or "live") weather there, otherwise it simply doesn't make sense to use these networks. You'll get wrong runway assignments from the controllers and they'll face a nightmare trying to separate you from other pilots if the winds are not correct (i.e. constantly 225/3). Especially the US is a mess. The official forum is full of reports about that issue (basically since the early Alpha stage), and only now the problem made it to the "known issue" list. https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/why-has-the-broken-225-03-wind-not-even-been-acknowledged-as-an-issue-extremely-concerning/208170 https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/this-is-the-225-03-wind-thread/240625 https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/live-weather-error/218383 https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/wind-live-weather-still-broken/194040 https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/live-weather-dont-seems-to-be-accurate/196205 ... And yes, in Europe it's working in many places quite accurately, but even there I'm getting discrepancies for parameters like pressure and temperatures, which are not within the limits...

Exactly like this. 🤦‍♂️ You do realise that eye candy is not what a simulator is all about, don't you? And their selling point has been ever since that this is going to be a flight simulator that can be enjoyed by those I-fly-a-study-level-plane-on-VATSIM-and-follow-each-procedure-from-the-top people as well as by more casual I-start-my-flights-mid-air-do-some-stunts-and-enjoy-the-landscape guys. And both groups are equally entitled and welcome to play MSFS. However, in its current state only one group is served to a certain extend. With the live weather (needed for flying on VATSIM, IVAO and PilotEdge) being broken and the default planes nowhere near the level they "promised" (sorry for using this word yet again)--just look at their partner episode when they visited Daher and compare it to what kind of TBM we got. And I wasn't even expecting study level. Maybe you understand a bit better now. Having said that, it's of course just my personal opinion and nothing more.

That's neither what a thing called "flight simulator" is all about, nor is it the only thing they promised us for the release. And I absolutely acknowledge that it'll be work in progress for many years to come.

Sorry, I couldn't help myself...! But a little bit of humor is still okay, isn't it?! 😄

No, according to what people are telling me this is an issue since the very first (Tech) Alpha and has been reported many, many times. So no, it can't be related to the server load nor has it ever been acknowledged by MS/Asobo.

Sure "they" have 😉 @AsoboStudio @MSFSofficial @MSFS_Support

Of course they are aware of it, but they should acknowledge it and tell us until when we can expect a fix--I don't mind waiting for another month or two, but the lack of communication is what's concerning people the most IMO. I have it on good authority that the broken live weather was there right from the start of the Alpha's and that this has never been acknowledged by MS/Asobo. The only thing they did was advertising their great live weather in the partnership series; so I think it's fair to expect a bit more than silence if one of the core functionalities of a flight "simulator" is far off from working as advertised.

I'd love to see #225at3Gate trending on Twitter, so that they'd have to react and can't ignore the issue any longer... #NotHappening 😄

Like I posted in another thread: What about the highly advertised "live weather" system, that's either a hit-and-miss in some European areas, or is just completely broken (wind 225/3 above 1,000 ft and/or no similarity to the METAR) in the US and other places. How will we ever be able to use a network like VATSIM if there's no common ground regarding the weather (and this common ground is supposed to be real-world conditions)? And please don't lecture me that their weather engine isn't based on METAR's--because I'm aware of it and it doesn't contribute anything to the topic; it could be based on input of fortune tellers as long as it's working IMO.

What about the highly advertised "live weather" system, that's either a hit-and-miss in some European areas, or is just completely broken (wind 225/3 above 1,000 ft and/or no similarity to the METAR) in the US and other places. How will we ever be able to use a network like VATSIM if there's no common ground regarding the weather (and this common ground is supposed to be real-world conditions)? And please don't lecture me that their weather engine isn't based on METAR's--because I'm aware of it and it doesn't contribute anything to the topic; it could be based on input of fortune tellers as long as it's working IMO.