FSX Winds/Weather

[JSkorna]

Eric,

FS does not mirror real world procedures all the time. Also, the altimeter is not resetting by itself. The poster was wondering why above 18K the pressure was always the same, which has also been answered.

[erictheviking]

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...

Apparently you don't read the same way I do.

Anyway this problem has been resolved by me! It seems FSX had stopped reading the .WX files on the partition where FSX is running. I created a new weather scenario on another computer and pasted those files into the default folder with all the other .WX, .FSSAVE and .FLT files and now it seems to work!