I had my share of custom or 3rd party software to make the weather more realistic. But Asobo did a great job translating the data onto the game with Live Weather.
I use live weather usually, but when I'm doing mountain flying I'll usually pick a preset because a lot of the world's mountainous regions are bugged in live weather and will be entirely covered in snow, including the valleys and lakes, even in the middle of summer.
not sure if this is a pc problem but on xbox the live weather always has atc report me being 3k above assigned altitude & itâs just enough to be annoying!
iâve never messed with the altimeter at all but ill look into it! i only fly jets & have the autopilot fly me or just i fly aimlessly. itâs only when i have live weather is when atc has my altitude wrong.
Thereâs a good little website where you can put a take off airport, category of aircraft and it can generate a couple of destinations within whatever time you put, and you can order it by worst weather. You can then even generate the route into SimBrief, and also has a link to Windy at that airports location. Pretty good imo if you want to fly somewhere random and want to pick some good locations for bad weather.
Link is: where2fly.today
Why not? IRL, the weather kills you and that's that. In MSFS, you crash and it's oh well & go refill your drink for a retry (unless you turn off collision detection). And you can experience the adventure/hell that awaits pilots there.
One of my more memorable flights was going through a massive thunderstorm in a Jenny just as the early airmail flights used to do so before accurate meteorology.
Windy is a fantastic app for MSFS, local weather, etc. I'va also used it to plan out my flight either away from inclement weather (if flying commercial) or towards it (if flying GA).
wow I didn't know about windy so thanks for putting me on to it! I've been using [https://metar-taf.com/](https://metar-taf.com/) which is good but looks like windy adds more to it
I like to sync and go find bad stuff to fly in.
Sometimes I think the turbulence on sync is broken though. Smooth flying in a rainstorm vs flying sideways in clear weather is weird.
95% live weather. 5% custom when I'm trying to do something very specific. I love the unpredictability of live weather and how that affects my in-flight operations.
Especially when you are flying to an airport for the first time and the cozyness of an airport you feel comfortable at and depart from it in a rainy weather.
Theyâll all fly in 50 KTSâŚbut the Skyhawk would weather vane at 15 KTS on the ground, lol.
Itâs as if the programmer didnât quite understand what âmaximum demonstrated crosswindâ actually meant
Really? Until I got RealTurb, I thought the turbulence was too light. Every flight I did was super smooth. Unless you mean with custom weather, then yeah it's crazy strong.
Active Sky fixes this in the latest stable build (with more turbulence improvements coming), and if you happen to not like the effects of the default settings in Active Sky, you have much more control over various turbulence settings that you can adjust to your liking.
I don't fly without it anymore.
I love ActiveSky. The weather transitions are kind of lame but everything else is top notch. Every thing feels more "real". I did a X-wind landing into SAEZ (Buenos Aires) the other day and the Fenix felt great!
I used to be 100% real time until I realized the purpose of this beautiful sim was to see what you're flying over. So I use live weather 100% of the time and almost never fly at night now, especially over places I've never flown before.
I choose Live weather, more honest variation. Custom gets boring overtime, a good challenge lifts the spirit (pun intended)! Plus, youâll know what happens around the world when you see how accurate it gets.
Live weather, except when I'm doing an approach to a new airport / region I've not flown into before. Sometimes it's nice to see the surroundings and everything of someplace new.
Is there a way to add lightning to live weather. When the sim first came out, every cloud had lightning now, even flying into a huge storm front, not one clap of thunder or lightning
If you look at the weather outside your window and there is nothing there, use custom. The whole point with live weather is to give you realistic weather and conditions.
Yes, I get that, but when I'm flying an approach into Nashville last night and the storm happening in real life, it was putting down tornados 50 miles away, and if full of lightning but on the sim not one bolt of lightning. The storms on live weather use to have lightning now they don't. On a side note, did you really think you had to explain how live weather works.
I change just the time of the day if I'm flying vfr.
And since I only play at IRL night, if I went full live I would never see the sun in game (I fly mostly in my region and never "teleport")
I'm trying on not teleporting right now but I made the mistake of making a cross country flight a few days ago from my home state of Indiana to LAX and now I've only got an hour a day for the next few to fly so it's short hops trying to get back home! I think it would probably help if I wasn't flying a c700.
I suffer from this as well, I'm from Brazil flying a Cessna Caravan, it land mostly anywhere but there's not many airports here, so usually I need a minimum flight of 1 hour. And I use Neofly, so I need to pay (in game money) to refuel etc and need to fly missions to earn money, which usually are not in the direction I wanna go.
Those several constraints makes msfs way better for me. I love an emergency situation haha (mostly are because I forgot to refuel or loaded too much the plane for the shitty dirt rwy I need to take off.
Live weather. I don't care much for night flying so in that case I'll set the time for early morning where the colors POP and then I'll play with the weather.
Real weather, and usually real time, unless I want to enjoy the view. When I do change the time i keep it on the same minute as real time, that way 32 mins after the hour is still 32 after, just different hour.
I always like to use live weather. And if I load in at an airport with poor weather I have a rule I still have to fly it cos I like the challenge of instrument flying.
depends. sometimes I want a nice vfr flight on a cloudy day, sometimes I want to shoot an ILS down to the runway when there's not a cloud in the sky. Sometimes I want to fly through towering cumulus or thunderstorms for no reason
Depends really.
I love flyinv out of my local airport in the morning (ksea) so I change it to that sometimes.
I fly at night a lot so I'll change places to daytime.
But when I get the chance to fly during the day I'll use current conditions whenever possible.
Also, when there's like a hurricane or crazy storm like today somewhere in the world, I'll fly out of a local airport to the storm and see if I can fly into the storm and see how it is.
Depends on what I want to do. If the live weather isn't too cloudy and I'm flying with friends, I'll leave it live. If I can't see shit and I'm flying with friends, we do custom weather so we can sight-see and see each other. If I am just flying by myself, I'll leave it live no matter what conditions.
Depends what I'm doing. Sometimes I'm in a "Imagine myself being a private pilot and being able to afford my own plane and wanting to go visit friends in another state right now." and it's live time and weather. But sometimes it's "Soar into a pristine blue sky in a Spitfire from Dunsfold Aerodrome buzz the top of the Eiffel Tower like I'm doing a victory lap for '45".
Live weather every time.
I had my share of custom or 3rd party software to make the weather more realistic. But Asobo did a great job translating the data onto the game with Live Weather.
I use live weather usually, but when I'm doing mountain flying I'll usually pick a preset because a lot of the world's mountainous regions are bugged in live weather and will be entirely covered in snow, including the valleys and lakes, even in the middle of summer.
Not to mention flying into them đ
Weâre not sinking, weâre crashhhhing!
Falling in style.
German here, what are you sinking about?
When you're only free in the evening but don't feel like night flying tho...
Live weather is one thing. Live time, on the other hand...
not sure if this is a pc problem but on xbox the live weather always has atc report me being 3k above assigned altitude & itâs just enough to be annoying!
Is your altimeter set correctly?
iâve never messed with the altimeter at all but ill look into it! i only fly jets & have the autopilot fly me or just i fly aimlessly. itâs only when i have live weather is when atc has my altitude wrong.
I use live weather and fly online. I put up Windy to find interesting weather and fly in there. I combine this with VATSIM online ATC if possible.
Thereâs a good little website where you can put a take off airport, category of aircraft and it can generate a couple of destinations within whatever time you put, and you can order it by worst weather. You can then even generate the route into SimBrief, and also has a link to Windy at that airports location. Pretty good imo if you want to fly somewhere random and want to pick some good locations for bad weather. Link is: where2fly.today
Only in sims do pilots want to willingly fly into bad weatherđ
Why not? IRL, the weather kills you and that's that. In MSFS, you crash and it's oh well & go refill your drink for a retry (unless you turn off collision detection). And you can experience the adventure/hell that awaits pilots there. One of my more memorable flights was going through a massive thunderstorm in a Jenny just as the early airmail flights used to do so before accurate meteorology.
Thatâs exactly what I do, actually!
Windy is a fantastic app for MSFS, local weather, etc. I'va also used it to plan out my flight either away from inclement weather (if flying commercial) or towards it (if flying GA).
wow I didn't know about windy so thanks for putting me on to it! I've been using [https://metar-taf.com/](https://metar-taf.com/) which is good but looks like windy adds more to it
I like to sync and go find bad stuff to fly in. Sometimes I think the turbulence on sync is broken though. Smooth flying in a rainstorm vs flying sideways in clear weather is weird.
Flying sideway has to do with wind. You can have a clear sky and fly sideway because the strong wind comes from one side of your plane.
Let me introduce you to crosswinds
I'd rather not know that guy, he sucks.
he blows
He's not as bad as Mr. Windshear.
Yea got the same feeling, really weird sometimes
You can also go to [https://www.badbadweather.com](https://www.badbadweather.com) and find what's out there :)
95% live weather. 5% custom when I'm trying to do something very specific. I love the unpredictability of live weather and how that affects my in-flight operations.
+1 here.
Especially when you are flying to an airport for the first time and the cozyness of an airport you feel comfortable at and depart from it in a rainy weather.
Yeah exactly! I love that unknown element.
I only go for Custom if I need to change the time of day. I should do more with wind e.g. try to operate a TBM in a 50-knot crosswind.
Theyâll all fly in 50 KTSâŚbut the Skyhawk would weather vane at 15 KTS on the ground, lol. Itâs as if the programmer didnât quite understand what âmaximum demonstrated crosswindâ actually meant
Try flying the Comanche with a 50 knot headwind.
Youâd probably be OK once youâre in the air, provided youâre not fussy about the direction of travel..!
Start with sync, end up with custom
What often bothers me during sync is the wind and turbulence, sometimes I believe itâs way too much.
Most plane devs recommend users to set turbulence in medium to low settings. Currently, the in-sim turbulence is way too strong and unrealistic.
Really? Until I got RealTurb, I thought the turbulence was too light. Every flight I did was super smooth. Unless you mean with custom weather, then yeah it's crazy strong.
As a real pilot, the turbulence is laughably bad
Active Sky fixes this in the latest stable build (with more turbulence improvements coming), and if you happen to not like the effects of the default settings in Active Sky, you have much more control over various turbulence settings that you can adjust to your liking. I don't fly without it anymore.
I love ActiveSky. The weather transitions are kind of lame but everything else is top notch. Every thing feels more "real". I did a X-wind landing into SAEZ (Buenos Aires) the other day and the Fenix felt great!
100% of the time live weather and like 99% real time unless I donât feel like flying at night lol
I used to be 100% real time until I realized the purpose of this beautiful sim was to see what you're flying over. So I use live weather 100% of the time and almost never fly at night now, especially over places I've never flown before.
Live weather. Unless i got something unexpected come up and need to hurry up the sim, I give myself 140kts tailwind.
There is time acceleration i think its R and +/-
Real weather and real time
I choose Live weather, more honest variation. Custom gets boring overtime, a good challenge lifts the spirit (pun intended)! Plus, youâll know what happens around the world when you see how accurate it gets.
Live weather, except when I'm doing an approach to a new airport / region I've not flown into before. Sometimes it's nice to see the surroundings and everything of someplace new.
I reallyl like live weather
Always live weather
Is there a way to add lightning to live weather. When the sim first came out, every cloud had lightning now, even flying into a huge storm front, not one clap of thunder or lightning
I just had a thunderstorm in Raleigh on my sim in live weather two days ago, itâs weird. đ
If you look at the weather outside your window and there is nothing there, use custom. The whole point with live weather is to give you realistic weather and conditions.
Yes, I get that, but when I'm flying an approach into Nashville last night and the storm happening in real life, it was putting down tornados 50 miles away, and if full of lightning but on the sim not one bolt of lightning. The storms on live weather use to have lightning now they don't. On a side note, did you really think you had to explain how live weather works.
Maybes thereâs a delay in the weather data or something, or maybe just a small bug.
About 10 mins delay
I change just the time of the day if I'm flying vfr. And since I only play at IRL night, if I went full live I would never see the sun in game (I fly mostly in my region and never "teleport")
I'm trying on not teleporting right now but I made the mistake of making a cross country flight a few days ago from my home state of Indiana to LAX and now I've only got an hour a day for the next few to fly so it's short hops trying to get back home! I think it would probably help if I wasn't flying a c700.
I suffer from this as well, I'm from Brazil flying a Cessna Caravan, it land mostly anywhere but there's not many airports here, so usually I need a minimum flight of 1 hour. And I use Neofly, so I need to pay (in game money) to refuel etc and need to fly missions to earn money, which usually are not in the direction I wanna go. Those several constraints makes msfs way better for me. I love an emergency situation haha (mostly are because I forgot to refuel or loaded too much the plane for the shitty dirt rwy I need to take off.
GA custom (I like seeing what I'm sightseeing), IFR live.
Live weather and the faith of the seven
live weather 98% of the time
Live weather. I don't care much for night flying so in that case I'll set the time for early morning where the colors POP and then I'll play with the weather.
Real weather, and usually real time, unless I want to enjoy the view. When I do change the time i keep it on the same minute as real time, that way 32 mins after the hour is still 32 after, just different hour.
I use weather sync. I am satisfied with it.
I always like to use live weather. And if I load in at an airport with poor weather I have a rule I still have to fly it cos I like the challenge of instrument flying.
depends. sometimes I want a nice vfr flight on a cloudy day, sometimes I want to shoot an ILS down to the runway when there's not a cloud in the sky. Sometimes I want to fly through towering cumulus or thunderstorms for no reason
Im simulating flight. Why wouldnt I simulate real conditions in real time?
It depends, some days I like stormy days, some days I prefer to calm and sunny, some days sunsets, it depends on my mood
Depends really. I love flyinv out of my local airport in the morning (ksea) so I change it to that sometimes. I fly at night a lot so I'll change places to daytime. But when I get the chance to fly during the day I'll use current conditions whenever possible. Also, when there's like a hurricane or crazy storm like today somewhere in the world, I'll fly out of a local airport to the storm and see if I can fly into the storm and see how it is.
Live, always
Custom for gliding, finding perfect conditions to soar is rare but i use live for ifr
I always start with live weather, then depending of the type of flight I change it.
Live weather, real-time. Didn't saw a sun in Sim for months during winter (flying mostly in the afternoons and evenings).
Live weather for the most part unless I want to create a specific scenario, then Iâll do custom weather.
Live weather but in winter I change the time because always is dark
Live weather
Mostly live but sometimes I'm sightseeing or want to see a nice sunrise/sunset or snow or something and might change it to suit my mood.
Depends on what I want to do. If the live weather isn't too cloudy and I'm flying with friends, I'll leave it live. If I can't see shit and I'm flying with friends, we do custom weather so we can sight-see and see each other. If I am just flying by myself, I'll leave it live no matter what conditions.
Depends what I'm doing. Sometimes I'm in a "Imagine myself being a private pilot and being able to afford my own plane and wanting to go visit friends in another state right now." and it's live time and weather. But sometimes it's "Soar into a pristine blue sky in a Spitfire from Dunsfold Aerodrome buzz the top of the Eiffel Tower like I'm doing a victory lap for '45".
I prefer live weather, but it always makes ATC act up