Trollydolly Posted November 23, 2015 Share Posted November 23, 2015 I start up FSX and I click for live weather updates, then I set my plane at Manchester airport and bingo, it's the same as outside the window - but if I fly from Manchester to..say London, does the weather update every fifteen minutes to my planes location or just my starting point? I suppose put simply I'm asking if it's a local update or a global update. Hold my beer and watch this... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evm Posted November 23, 2015 Share Posted November 23, 2015 I start up FSX and I click for live weather updates, then I set my plane at Manchester airport and bingo, it's the same as outside the window - but if I fly from Manchester to..say London, does the weather update every fifteen minutes to my planes location or just my starting point? I suppose put simply I'm asking if it's a local update or a global update. FSX has numerous weather stations and you always get the weather closest to your position. More often than not this results in a "jump" of the weather depiction. Clouds may suddenly appear or winds may shift. An external weather engine like ASN does a better job. That said, stations there are many, but they are not complete (as you will notice when you fly transatlantic for example, you will fly in pretty much the same weather from Shannon to Gander) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trollydolly Posted November 23, 2015 Author Share Posted November 23, 2015 So it does update to where you fly - but with jumps and discrepencies. That's fine, thanks. Hold my beer and watch this... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrzippy Posted November 23, 2015 Share Posted November 23, 2015 Keep in mind that there are times that the weather updating will go down. That's to say that the stations will not update to the newest weather conitions and are broadcasting old info. This will happen from time to time. Still thinking about a new flightsim only computer! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rupert Posted November 23, 2015 Share Posted November 23, 2015 Keep in mind that there are times that the weather updating will go down. That's to say that the stations will not update to the newest weather conitions and are broadcasting old info. This will happen from time to time. Agreed! But it sure beats no weather update coverage at all! I've gone online using Weather Underground and other sites to verify update accuracy at various spots on the globe. The vast majority of the times when I fly, it is spot on. However as noted, I have been flying along at x=airspeed & suddenly seen a 15-25knt speed change. And yes I've flown in heavy fog and suddenly all sunshine and not a cloud in sight. That's when you cross from one weather coverage area to another. But then again, I've seen this happen when thunder storms etc. are in the area as well, in the real world. Being an old chopper guy I usually fly low and slow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MBKHOU Posted November 23, 2015 Share Posted November 23, 2015 I thought FSX WX had been kaput for quite some time.. ?? It was sporadic for a good while, then a couple of years ago it went kaput, and I got the same WX every day for weeks.. Gave up and tried OPUS for a while. It was better than FSX WX, with better clouds, but still had winds aloft issues.. In that respect it wasn't any better, even trying to use the smoothing, etc. Then I went to ASN when the NGX radar update came out. The winds aloft issues were pretty much gone with ASN. There are other things that make ASN better too.. Rain will vary in intensity.. Hail effects, etc.. But it ain't free like FSX WX.. :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evm Posted November 23, 2015 Share Posted November 23, 2015 The real world weather function started to work again somewhere around the beginning of this year. I think that may have had something to do with the release of FSX SE. DTG probably wanted that feature back or else they would have had to replace or remove it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trollydolly Posted November 23, 2015 Author Share Posted November 23, 2015 Fascinating. I have seen how closely FSX compares to weather in my area so knew it worked quite well, I just didn't know if it only featured at where you start out. I think even a patchy global update is astonishingly good Hold my beer and watch this... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rupert Posted November 23, 2015 Share Posted November 23, 2015 "Hold my beer and watch this..." Wish I had a dime for every time I heard that one at motorcycle field meets!:cool: Being an old chopper guy I usually fly low and slow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MBKHOU Posted November 23, 2015 Share Posted November 23, 2015 Fascinating. I have seen how closely FSX compares to weather in my area so knew it worked quite well, I just didn't know if it only featured at where you start out. I think even a patchy global update is astonishingly good Actually, you can select it either way. A single one time download, or updated every 15 minutes. I always used the 15 min update option when I was using FSX WX. I also used winds aloft. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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