Weather profiles

[3saul]

I thought this may be a nice feature to include in a future release. It would be nice to be able to save weather settings to file and be able to recall them as desired. This could include manual weather or live metar weather.

 

For example, it would be great to be able to pull down some weather data during a storm, save it and fly it tomorrow when the weather may have changed. Or to be able to call up a custom low visibility approach weather file for practice.

 

 

Any thoughts?

[Cameron]

SkyMaxx Pro is not a weather injector. It only reads what X-Plane fetches, so something like this will either come from Laminar or a different product!

[Tsetsoh]

I believe this process will work for saving the weather you want:

 

When you are seeing the weather in X-Plane that you like you can save the METAR.rwx file from the root folder of X-Plane install.  You have to copy it (not move it) before the weather is updated.  You can do that as you fly by grabbing a copy of it from the folder, or immediately shut down and then copy it.

 

Save this METAR.rwx file somewhere so that you will know what it is, but you can't rename it.  When you want to use it again just copy and paste it back into the X-Plane folder (replacing the current file) and tell X-Plane to read the file (in the weather menu).  Then change the weather setting from updating real weather from the web -- Set it to grab weather from the master machine.  You will then have the weather you had saved.

 

When you are ready to go back to real weather updates just change the setting.

[3saul]

Tsetsoh - thanks.

Will this work if I'm using the NOAA plugin?

[Ben Russell]

Probably not. The NOAA plugin uses more data than a simple braindead METAR file can provide.

[Tsetsoh]

Tsetsoh - thanks.

Will this work if I'm using the NOAA plugin?

Ben's right about the NOAA plugin.  It does not use "real weather" and it has it's own source for data.  

 

This would only work if you are using X-Plane's real weather (via the METAR.rwx file).  Of course if you have the NOAA transition point at an altitude above the level you are wanting to fly (such as an approach) you should still be able to use that METAR file.

 

The advantage of using a specific METAR file (over just setting the weather the same for everywhere) is that it is world-wide weather for that particular day and time.  Therefore it would actually change some as you are en-route from one place to another.  However, it would still be Groundhog Day every day! 

Edited December 14, 2013 by Tsetsoh