Crazy winds and abnormal temperatures causing stall [P3D V3]

[Hena330]

Hello all,

over the past month or so I have been in constant battle with what seems to be a weather bug within the sim. What has happened numerous times is that the weather which is supposed to be 230/12 can quickly (within a matter of seconds) turn into 230/200, which for a tailwind and such a quick change tends to bring trouble to my aircraft :confused: Another example was a departure out of Adelaide, surface winds were 9 knots with 20 degrees c, 2000ft, the winds were 100knots, with a temperature of -20. I assumed this was my weather engine, which was FSXWX as it being freeware, I uninstalled it, yet the problem still persisted. I thought that ASN may be the way to go... nope (Still a worthy purchase though) I have the latest version of FSUIPC installed and registered. These anomalies are seen with all of my current add-on aircraft (PMDG 777, 737NGX, Aerosoft Airbus, etc). I am unaware of the situation of default aircraft.

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated, I have yet to find a solution to this somewhat inconvenient 'Bug'

 

Kind regards,

Henri

[torkermax]

ASN would be a good solution. Your situation is not unique to just P3D. It is a scenario in all FS versions. The default weather engine smoothing isn't the best.

[mallcott]

P3D does NOT include a realtime weather engine, so what you have done is introduce a problem via whatever weather engine you have selected.

I would begin by creating a whole new default flight, eliminate all the possible variables that could be causing the issue based on inherited flight information.

 

What you can then do is select a key combo for clear all weather using FSUIPC, and force ASN to reload the weather. If the problem recurs, then use the key.

[vgbaron]

If that doesn't work, open a support ticket for ASN at support.hifitechinc.com

 

Vic

[Jim Robinson]

As I recall FSXWX requires some rather intrusive modifications:

 

- replace wxmapping.bin (with one supplied by FSXWX)

- replace ThermalDescriptions.xml (with one supplied by FSXWX)

- FSX.cfg modifications:

[Weather]

TurbulenceScale=0.800000

CLOUD_COVERAGE_DENSITY=8

CLOUD_DRAW_DISTANCE=4

 

- some (possibly) unorthodox WX settings in FSUIPC

 

I like FSXWX personally and I thought it worked well in FSX and P3D v2.x (haven't yet tried it in v3) but to use it IMHO you need to have a backup plan in place for all the changes it requires (as instructed on the site).

 

Did you revert those changes when you stopped using FSXWX?

[Hena330]

Hello all,

Thanks for all of your suggestions and I will report back after further testing

Regarding FSXWX, I replaced all of the files with my backed up original P3D files.

 

Thanks again,

Henri

[Hena330]

Here are my setting for weather in my cfg;

 

[WEATHER]

WindshieldPrecipitationEffects=1

MinGustTime=10

MaxGustTime=500

MinGustRampSpeed=1

MaxGustRampSpeed=200

MinVarTime=5

MaxVarTime=50

MinVarRampSpeed=10

MaxVarRampSpeed=75

TurbulenceScale=1.000000

WeatherGraphDataInDialog=0

AdjustForMagVarInDialog=1

DynamicWeather=0

DownloadWindsAloft=0

DisableTurbulence=0

CLOUD_DRAW_DISTANCE=6

DETAILED_CLOUDS=1

OPTIMIZE_DENSE_CLOUDS=0

CLOUD_COVERAGE_DENSITY=7

THERMAL_VISUALS=0

VolumetricFog=0

 

 

 

 

Some pictures demonstrating the situation

 

Thanks again

 

Henri

[Hena330]

Hello all,

Just a quick update on the weather, I performed a flight from YPAD-YMML in the NGX, this time using a clear weather setting for the default flight. I loaded ASN after loading the sim, and all was well for the flight. The problem with this is that the 'bug' tends to be a bit of 'here and there' and it may take time to tell whether this will fix the solution. I will continue to carry out flight tests and report back with any anomalies.

 

Kind regards,

Henri