FSX Winds/Weather

[erictheviking]

If this has been posted somewhere, I couldn't find it.

I went into the custom weather section of FSX to set the winds for a southerly flow at KDCA. When I spawned the airplane on the active runway expecting it to be 19 and it wasn't. ATIS was reporting the winds as "Calm" and the active runway as runway 1.

I tried several times and eventually got the active to be set to 19, but ATIS never reported it as anything other than "calm."

Anybody know what is happening here?

[djadlib]

Did you change the windspeed?

Harro

[fxsttcb]

Correct wind layer? AGL?...Don

[JSkorna]

Wind speeds of 1 to 6 will always be reported as "calm".

[erictheviking]

I have set the wind speed as high as 24 knots with gusts to 29 knots with the same result. And when I go back into the custom weather section to modify the settings, they are showing "calm" as though I had never done anything. I have tried custom, adding layers, moving layers, complete advanced weather. Nothing changes the settings except the "weather themes." If I choose "cold front" or "gray and rainy" then I can get a southerly flow. But nothing custom gives me a southerly flow when I get back into the airplane.

Have any of you actually used the "custom weather?"

[fxsttcb]

Have any of you actually used the "custom weather?"

Yep! I even replicated "Hugo" with it...Don

[edit]Irene and Earl: http://www.flightsim.com/vbfs/showth...pursuing-Irene

[erictheviking]

Well apparently it is an installation issue. I fired up my laptop and FSX on that machine doesn't have the weather problem. So this morning I dual-booted into my XP machine and FSX on that machine doesn't have the weather problem either.

The only difference seems to be that FSX is installed on C: partition on my Win7 box but C: is not the boot partition. I read somewhere that FSX runs better on a different drive than the boot drive but it doesn't seem so in this case. Maybe it is because both of these drive letters are on the same piece of hardware, a SATA Western Digital and the XP box is on another piece of hardware which is an Hitachi SATA drive. I don't know for sure.

Now I have to choose if I want to fix it or work around it.

[Kennyfly]

I have noticed something odd about weather in FSX as well. I almost always try to turn on "realistic" weather settings and ask it to update every 15 minutes so that I can fly in as close to real-world conditions as possible.

However, I've noticed something odd with the barometer when you get above 18,000 feet. It seems that above that magic number, the atmospheric pressure always goes to 29.92 in Hg. Even earlier this week when TS Debby was influencing weather where I was flying, low level pressure may have been in the low 29s or even upper 28s, but as soon as it goes above 18,000 FSX yells at me about the altimeter not being set right and it pops back to 29.92. I get wind gusts, I get crosswinds, updrafts and downdrafts and storm clouds and all that, but the pressure never changes... Is there some way to tweak the settings on the real world weather so that the information it pulls will give complete atmospheric information all the way up to higher altitudes?

Thanks for any insights on this...

[mjrhealth]

You may want to try this program

http://www.hanse-coders.net/?page=do...62af00c&dkid=2

much better than the default and free. The reason why FSX may set the barometer above 18000 at 2992 is because above that all planes set there pressure setting to that so no matter what the pressure is they are all flying at the same altitude.

cheers

[erictheviking]

A little inconsistency here. In Europe altimeters are set to 29.92 above 10,000 feet.

As to why FSX would reset the altimeter by itself is a puzzlement but the reason FSX is bugging you about it is because of the "Flying Tips" feature which can be disabled in the menu.

I can't imagine why the altimeter is being changed on its own unless the "B" key was pressed. This is the default key for changing to the appropriate local or global setting.