diamonddriller Posted July 6, 2015 Report Posted July 6, 2015 I like to use X-Plane's real weather options. Usually, SkyMaxx Pro reflects the METARS that are downloaded. Sometimes, however, it is completely wrong. For example, I had real weather showing pretty clear skies in S. California the other day. SkyMaxx Pro gave me a lot of clouds, lightning and thunder at the very airport that was supposed to be virtually CAVOK! I disabled SkyMaxx, and the weather I then saw in X-Plane was as per the current METAR for the field. Using 10.36 in OS X 10.10.4 (iMac). So, does anybody know why these discrepancies appear? Today, SkyMaxx Pro gave me exactly the weather that the METARs showed.
sundog Posted July 7, 2015 Report Posted July 7, 2015 SkyMaxx Pro doesn't read the METAR's directly; it uses datarefs provided to it by X-Plane that indicate the weather conditions at your plane's position. I don't know what X-Plane does under the hood to go from METAR data to "what's the weather right here," but the answer probably lies there (assuming you don't have a weather add-on or VATSIM going on).
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