If I don't like the current weather, I can use historical weather. Personally, I can't fly without real world weather. It is up to you whether these effects are worth it. There can be local areas of different weather and you can see these in the distance, as with the thunderstorms.Īs you can see, there are a lot of things you can't do with manual weather. After the flight I asked my wife if it was raining, she said "Not yet." A few minutes later it started to rain. I was once flying to my home airport through rain, and just before landing the rain stopped. When I asked they said they were indeed in storms. I once saw thunderstorms some distance away while I was flying in the clear, and got a phone call from someone who was in the area of the thunderstorms. Several times flying down a coast I've seen clouds out over the ocean where there are no weather stations, while the coast itself was clear. Winds aloft will be correct for the altitude you are flying. You will get appropriate icing conditions when they exist. Visibility will be different near the ground than at altitude. Quite often you'll see more than one layer of clouds in an area. I have see the same thing occasionally elsewhere, this was just the most dramatic. ASN just knew to generate it due to conditions. This was 20-40 miles from the nearest weather station. I saw several patches of fog on the ground in isolated areas. I was using Active Sky Next flying in Alaska near Merrill Pass once. To get accurate weather these days, you have to rely on 3rd party add-on like those listed by Tsarcasm. Nothing has changed since DTG took over FSX and released it as FSX-SE. The agreement between them and Microsoft lapsed for some reason around 2010 (don't know exactly when it was, but that's my estimate), and no other weather provider has jumped in to take Jepsens spot. The real world weather system was provided by Jepsen. But there's also an option for real world weather & these packages have a 'wake turbulence' effect as well which does not come default in FSX. For example If you wanted to fly in hurrican katrina, you'd set the weather engine to August 29th, 2005 at the aiport KMSY and you would get the weather for that day. You can even replicate certain weather from a certain time. SkyForce 3D by REXSims also does a nice job. Google up - Active Sky 16 or Active Sky next. You're going to need to dish out some money if you want accurate weather. Real world weather in FSX is the absolute worst. Originally posted by Tsarcasm:Everyone does.
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