Isabel

[dfish]

Has anyone spotted hurricaine Isabel? I'm at FL400 over S.E. Virginia and all I see are scattered 3/8 about 4,000 ft.

Dave Fisher
CYYZ

[Pirate]

I just got overcast(a perfect one), with 22knots wind, at Wilmington.

[flarrfan]

I flew the Baron from Greenville southeast to Ocracoke this afternoon, had pressures as low as 28.75 (lots of Altimeter incorrect Press B messages!), horizontal rain and whiteouts, especially trying to find the airstrip on Ocracoke. Highest wind was only 38 knots, think I missed the worst of it. Flew back north chasing the storm but couldn't find the bad stuff and put back down at Greenville. Had some releatively clear areas and some places where the instruments were the only way to tell whether or not you were right side up or upside down.

[tgibson]

Make sure your clouds sliders are at 100%.

Hope this helps,

[jboweruk]

it was Cr*p, all i got was max 64 knots, and the same for a pal of mine who also tried it. Tried to go above it and it didn't even look like a hurricane.

[Waltm]

I flew from the Georgia coast up to Cape Hatteras yesterday in Flight 1's Cessna 310 with FS2004 real weather downloads every 15 minutes. I saw a significant pressure drop as I moved north--getting as low as 28.60--with ATC frequently advising AI aircraft to modify their altitudes.

Approaching Cape Hatterasm I had constant winds from the south at 50-60 knots. From FL140 the world appeared partly cloudy below with some haze, though I did encounter some zero visibility (i.e., flying in a cloud). If I got below 2000 ft., I encountered rain and very low visibility, and surface winds of 30-40 knots.

While I didn't expect FS2004 real weather to render anything that actually looked like a hurricane, I was hoping to see some towering thunderstorms--cumulus and cumulus nimbus, but saw nothing of the sort. I was especially disappointed by the fact that from FL140 the world looked like a typical summer day with puffy clouds over a hazy landscape, while at altitudes below 2,000 ft. the world was much more hurricane-like.

Maybe not all the weather report stations were active? or maybe some had stopped updating their reports? Maybe there's a way to "build" a better hurricane in FS2002?

-- Walt

[rsmith6621]

Doing A local flight out of BWI tonight and this is what I got.