Hurricanes

[minimoya]

Hey everyone! Since Hurricane Earl is heading up my coast, I wanted to simulate a hurricanic flight. Is it possible to have hurricanes in FSX?

[jcmmg]

Hey everyone! Since Hurricane Earl is heading up my coast, I wanted to simulate a hurricanic flight. Is it possible to have hurricanes in FSX?

You can have some weather depiction by using HiFi ASE, but I don't know any other software that can do it.

[zwemjan]

I use Hifi Active Sky X
Yesterday I had a flight from the Baham's to the center (eye) of Earl
Wind 99 knts and rain
The program shows all information of the weather and a map with the connection to FS
Succes
Janzwem

[ReggieF5421]

Remember that if the SHIFT+Z weather info is showing 99 kts for the wind - that may not be correct. The winds could be higher, it is just that the display only shows two digits. If the wind is 100 kts or higher - 99 is what is displayed.

KNTU - NAS Oceana, VA is a good airport to fly in a storm. Most of the airports off the coast of North Carolina will have their weather reporting go off-line as the storm approaches. So you will see standard weather at those locations.

The Naval Air Station stays on-line in such storms. I've seen 124 kts of sustained wind on the ground at that airport with standard FS weather.

Now, FS standard weather does not model hurricanes at all - for an eye, and rotation of winds - you need a payware addon.

At this time - there is not much near land

KILM 021553Z AUTO 03013G18KT 10SM CLR 27/21 A2992 RMK AO2 RAB30E51 SLP130 P0000 T02670211 TSNO
KFFA 021600Z AUTO 06009G14KT 030V090 10SM CLR 28/23 A3001 RMK AO2 T02750226
KECG 021554Z 06011KT 10SM CLR 27/22 A3002 RMK AO2 SLP165 T02720222
KNTU 021556Z 12009KT 10SM SCT100 BKN150 BKN200 28/21 A3003 RMK AO2 SLP171 T02780211 $

[Foxtrot789]

I had the same hopes but went to load up a flight near the Dominican Republic and REX showed blue, partly cloudy skies with loads of sunlight. Tried changing all sorts of settings from the REX (external from fsx) program with no real changes. Weather.com was showing heavy orange on it's radar right above me too.

Does REX just get overwhelmed and say 'F it, here take some vfr'?

[ScatterbrainKid]

Dead easy, I don't use REX or anything else, I just set up this hurricane over the Florida Keys by simply doing a 1-minute tweak of the standard FSX weather/wind options. Note wind speed readout of 99 kts and the driving rain. I also threw in severe turbulence and dusk to give a Doomsday-gloom for maximum dramatic effect-



For the record, here's the basic tweak sequence- World> Weather> Customize> Advanced Weather> Wind tab (set 100 kts or whatever)> Turbulence severe> ok> ok> Weather Themes (gray rainy)> ok.
(Can also set time of day and low visibility if desired)

[JSkorna]

http://www.flightsim.com/vbfs/showthread.php?t=218917

[Foxtrot789]

Dead easy, I don't use REX or anything else, I just set up this hurricane over the Florida Keys by simply doing a 1-minute tweak of the standard FSX weather/wind options. Note wind speed readout of 99 kts and the driving rain. I also threw in severe turbulence and dusk to give a Doomsday-gloom for maximum dramatic effect-


For the record, here's the basic tweak sequence- World> Weather> Customize> Advanced Weather> Wind tab (set 100 kts or whatever)> Turbulence severe> ok> ok> Weather Themes (gray rainy)> ok.
(Can also set time of day and low visibility if desired)

I know how to set it up manually, I just wanted to see REX's version of it. Thanks for the help though

[duckbilled]

http://www.flightsim.com/vbfs/showthread.php?t=218917

With ASE, make sure you have the most recent update.

Jim, that is what was causing the issue foe me that I posted over at AVSIM.

Just flew through Earl and saw the eye wall with ASE. Winds were all over the place and I experienced the wind shift as I flew through one side of the eye to the other.

Try flying through at about 7000 ft.

[minimoya]

Okay thanks a lot! Lets hope it works.


Sorry I've been away daily, arronds, etc.