Real World Weather

[davestanicar]

I have both FS9 and FSX on my desk top computer. I have FS9 on my laptop. I like to fly real world weather and practice for flying my 172. Some time last spring during a stormy week something happened to my real world weather capability. It seems to be stuck on weather that was prevalent in the spring. Current temp 100F and clear in the real world, real world weather on both flight sims shows 48 degrees, cloudy and foggy. I can't get it to change. Help anyone??

[garymbuska]

I have both FS9 and FSX on my desk top computer. I have FS9 on my laptop. I like to fly real world weather and practice for flying my 172. Some time last spring during a stormy week something happened to my real world weather capability. It seems to be stuck on weather that was prevalent in the spring. Current temp 100F and clear in the real world, real world weather on both flight sims shows 48 degrees, cloudy and foggy. I can't get it to change. Help anyone??

My advice is to ditch the real world weather in FS9 or in FSX even when it is working it is the pits.
There are several programs out there that do a much better job most are payware I use Active Sky Evolution as it works with both FSX and FS9.
This program gives you the ability to put real world weather into your flight plans and it updates more often than the default weather maker.
There is a new version out now called Active Sky NEXT http://www.hifitechinc.com/index.php?ti ... o%2520HiFi
You can try before you buy. This program is worth every penny. It has won several awards in the flight sim community
But there are other programs out there as well.

[ViperPilot]

gary,

There's also FSRealWx...

http://www.fsrealwx.net/index.php/downloads/betas

[PhantomTweak]

gary,

There's also FSRealWx...

http://www.fsrealwx.net/index.php/downloads/betas

I use that all the time, and it works great for me! Best wx program I've ever found so far! Free one any way...I'm very cheap...err....FRUGAL! Yeah, very frugal! That was it!

Pat☺

[papituwall]

Same good results as Phantom here

With the Fs9/FSX weather as far as I remember, it seems that the internal weather is using the Web browser (Explorer), so if you don't have the option of clearing history etc. when closing the browser, this must be done before starting the simulator in order to clear last weather status.

[SG-19]

My default real weather seems to work just fine, I've never had any issue's getting reasonable accurate weather around my home field.

[garymbuska]

Check out the video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UXyAhnUwsw