Ken Hall Posted June 11, 2008 Share Posted June 11, 2008 I have FEX and tried using the FSX live weather updated every I think 15 mins, I tried it this morning because it is really foul weather at the moment at devonport, I mean real wish I were on the ground stuff. So I set it up , it downloaded the latest weather from Jeppson, great I thought here we go. To my not so surprised eyes, The jeppson forecast was calm , clear, some dewpoint info, I mean how wrong can they get it, I know weather men get a roasting when they get it wrong but this was so dam wrong I thought they must have used another planet for there forecast. It has been lousy weather here for at least 3 days, so my guess is they don't update there info too often. OR I am doing something very wrong in the setup, am I wasting my time with the fsx defaut weather, how long till FEX update or REX arrives. cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ymhb_flyer Posted June 12, 2008 Share Posted June 12, 2008 Well, you know what they say down here in Tassie : If you don't like the weather, come back in 15 minutes.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmrich28 Posted June 12, 2008 Share Posted June 12, 2008 just a real quick after work shot in area mentioned (using ASX) definitely NOT calm for me threw the widget on there just to show what it was showing real time Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maurice_King Posted June 12, 2008 Share Posted June 12, 2008 The Jeppersen Database can be anything up to 24-48 Hours old and IMHO about as useful as a pack of franger's with holes, I was under the impression that FEX can DL and interperate the Metar's anyway Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martinc Posted June 12, 2008 Share Posted June 12, 2008 Yeah, I'd noticed the same thing...but its not consistently out of date, sometimes it's spot on, so theres some variability in there somewhere. Love to know more about how the mechanism works... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martinc Posted June 12, 2008 Share Posted June 12, 2008 Just out of curiosity this is the METAR from Jeppesen at 14:42 EST 12/06/08 PLAN 28386 * * JEPPESEN WEATHER 06/12/08, 04:41:32 ---------------------------------**--------------------------------- *************************** * NON-GRAPHIC INFORMATION * *************************** METAR YMML 120430Z 34021KT 9999 FEW040 SCT090 BKN260 16/04 Q1013 FM0430 MOD TURB BLW 5000FT= YMML 120330Z 35026G37KT 9999 FEW040 SCT090 BKN260 16/04 Q1013 FM0330 MOD TURB BLW 5000FT= YMML 120230Z 35022KT 9999 FEW040 BKN260 15/07 Q1014 FM0230 MOD TURB BLW 5000FT= YMML FD DATA BASED ON 120000Z. 6000 9000 12000 18000 24000 30000 34000 39000 12Z 2942P02 2944M04 2946M10 3049M23 3072M36 2992M48 7900M52 2888M53 18Z 2537M01 2636M07 2637M13 2841M25 2743M38 2650M47 2659M49 2665M50 00Z 2239M03 2238M08 2249M12 2179M19 2185M33 2086M48 2182M53 2370M54 06Z 2238M02 2147M05 2155M08 2170M17 2180M31 1999M45 7005M54 2274M59 This is the METAR from BOM (Australia) same time MELBOURNE YMML 04:39 UTC, 12/06/2008 TTF METAR YMML 120430Z 34021KT 9999 FEW040 SCT090 BKN260 16/04 Q1013 RMK RF00.0/000.0 FM0430 MOD TURB BLW 5000FT So i guess, sometimes they're ok, sometimes they get out of whack, i also wonder if the small GAAP's and regional stations are not as inherently accurate as say the bigger internationals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Hall Posted June 12, 2008 Author Share Posted June 12, 2008 It's been way longer than 15 min( thought the saying was wait half an hour), anyway it's still blowing like mad, and bucketting down total overcast none of this broken stuff. Strange though I forgot to mention that when I took of it was buffeting me like crazy, just no precipitation or clouds, Maybe some lost thermal from the mainland driffted over to give me a hard time. Anyway it sure would add to the sim if they could get it right, I liked that wdget thingy that looked pretty close to spot on. cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BennyHill Posted June 14, 2008 Share Posted June 14, 2008 For you flightsimmers who have trouble reading the METAR in martinc's mail, there is a very good decoder available as a free download (DonationWare)that will read a downloaded METAR from Pilot Briefing Services from Pilot Briefing Service. You then copy and paste into the decoder - and it will translate it into plain understandable English. You need to register for the Pilot Briefing Services - but that is also free. The site is also full of other aviation info. For the decoder got to SAAA - Sports Aircraft Association of Australia - Builders of Experimental Aircraft and look for Wayne Gill's WX DECODER. The current version is 2.0.1 I found it very usefull when studying for my PPL - I still had to read a METAR but it helped with the translation and improved my ability to directly read the information. This is martinc's METAR copied from his mail. MELBOURNE YMML 04:39 UTC, 12/06/2008 TTF METAR YMML 120430Z 34021KT 9999 FEW040 SCT090 BKN260 16/04 Q1013 RMK RF00.0/000.0 FM0430 MOD TURB BLW 5000FT This is WX Decoder's translation MELBOURNE/ MELBOURNE INTL YMML VIC 37 40.4S 144 50.6E Mag Var: 11ºE Elev: 434ft UTC: +10 AREA: 30 Avfax Code: 3001 First/Last Light: 2105/0739Z [0705/1739 local] TTF METAR Issue Time : 0430Z [1430 local] Validity : 3hr from Issue Time Wind : 340°T / 21kt Visibility : 9999 [better than 10km] WX : [Nil Found] Cloud : FEW 4000ft / SCATTERED 9000ft / BROKEN 26000ft [base AGL] Temp : 16 Dewpoint : 04 QNH : 1013 REMARKS Rainfall : 00.0mm [recorded in 10min period prior to Issue Time] 000.0mm [recorded from 0900 local to Issue Time] FROM 0430Z [1430 local] Wind : [Nil Found] Visibility : [Nil Found] WX : MODERATE TURBULANCE BELOW 5000ft Cloud : [Nil Found] Note the additional aiirport information - the only issue is that WX Decoder works for Australia only. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macca22au Posted June 14, 2008 Share Posted June 14, 2008 The FSX default real world weather always give a calm and clear first reading for some reason. And then once the game is running it seems to download or apply the actual weather. However I use Active Sky X an add-on program and it is streets better. If you use it with X-graphics or FEX then the clouds are brillliant. If you have a multicore processor you can set the affinity for ASX to another core (in my case the fourth core, Core 3) so it doesn't compete with FSX which in spite of some scenery threading still dominantly uses Core 0. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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