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Rob Vanderkam
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Post subject: Wx settings with SquawkBox Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2011 2:54 am |
Joined: Wed Jul 16, 2003 1:16 am Posts: 2586 Location: Ottawa
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I'm a little hesitant to write this but if you don't know, you don't know. I guess.... The VATCAN Flight Academy had a lesson on Wx. It started out by saying that did you know that the weather you see might be different from the weather ATC or the pilot next to you sees. Sure, I knew that. It goes on to say that this could be because your sim wx settings might be different from yours. Okay. I knew that. Then it says, "your sim might have wx set to static, and another pilot might have dynamic...." Now I have been flying VATSIM since about 2006 and have 700 hours online and I always thought that the weather was provided by SquawkBox. It even has a check box to "Enable SB weather control", which I always click because I assume SB gets the weather from the VATSIM servers and then provides it to my sim. What else could "Enable SB weather control" mean? But when I saw the Flight Academy tutorial, I think to myself, I wonder if setting that myself in FSX instead of letting SB do it would mean I might actually get something other than scattered clouds and winds aloft of 25 knots? So I look at my settings and its set to "Static weather of scattered clouds and winds aloft of 25 knots!" So, I changed it to Dynamic (uses Jeppesen I think), turned it on, turned on SB, and voila, today is overcast and no more scattered clouds! 5 years and 700 hours. And not one of you noticed with all my screen shots.
_________________ CVA (established in 1997) is 23 years old this year!
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CVA0014
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Post subject: Re: Wx settings with SquawkBox Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2011 3:42 am |
Joined: Fri Feb 27, 2009 1:39 am Posts: 1908 Location: Up here wishing I was down there.
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I just reinstalled FS-X a few minutes ago, first setting I set, dynamic weather. Always used it. But it will change when I buy myself a few birthday presents soon: - UTX USA & Canada - GEX North America - Active Sky Evolution, or something better if there is one.
_________________ i9-9900KR @ 3.6GHz, G SKILL DDR4 32GB @ 3200MHz, MSI Z390 Gaming Plus, ASUS RTX4080 OC, Triple Acer X223W 22", Triple Acer X183H 19", HyperX Cloud II headset, SAMSUNG SSD 850 EVO 250GB and 500GB, EVGA Supernova G2 850W, CORSAIR Obsidian 750D
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Cal Jordan (CVA371)
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Post subject: Re: Wx settings with SquawkBox Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2011 8:50 am |
Joined: Sat Mar 08, 2008 7:59 pm Posts: 1016 Location: Kelowna, BC
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Rob Vanderkam
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Post subject: Re: Wx settings with SquawkBox Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2011 12:37 pm |
Joined: Wed Jul 16, 2003 1:16 am Posts: 2586 Location: Ottawa
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CVA0014
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Post subject: Re: Wx settings with SquawkBox Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2011 2:22 pm |
Joined: Fri Feb 27, 2009 1:39 am Posts: 1908 Location: Up here wishing I was down there.
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It's always beginning to snow where Cal lives.
_________________ i9-9900KR @ 3.6GHz, G SKILL DDR4 32GB @ 3200MHz, MSI Z390 Gaming Plus, ASUS RTX4080 OC, Triple Acer X223W 22", Triple Acer X183H 19", HyperX Cloud II headset, SAMSUNG SSD 850 EVO 250GB and 500GB, EVGA Supernova G2 850W, CORSAIR Obsidian 750D
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Peter Stuiver
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Post subject: Re: Wx settings with SquawkBox Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2011 2:25 pm |
Joined: Wed Jul 08, 2009 1:31 am Posts: 87 Location: Burlington, ON
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I guess it is never too late to learn something new, I understand though, how you would think tha SB would override the FS weather settings. Just think of all the other wonderous discoveries that await as you progress through the course
_________________ Pete Stuiver CVA 0069 aka CVA229 when online
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Rob Vanderkam
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Post subject: Re: Wx settings with SquawkBox Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2011 2:56 pm |
Joined: Wed Jul 16, 2003 1:16 am Posts: 2586 Location: Ottawa
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I found this on the SB forums: SB4 when used with FSX has no weather. ( http://squawkbox.ca/forum/viewtopic.php?p=22450) Seems that it used to do something with FS9, but doesn't anymore. So maybe I've only been flying with scattered clouds and fair weather since I went to FSX a year ago.
_________________ CVA (established in 1997) is 23 years old this year!
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Rob Vanderkam
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Post subject: Re: Wx settings with SquawkBox Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2011 3:27 pm |
Joined: Wed Jul 16, 2003 1:16 am Posts: 2586 Location: Ottawa
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Ha! I just found out something else. I've been complaining that my 'B' key doesn't set the altimeter for me for years! Now I know why. It doesn't work when FSX Wx is on static but now works fine. I've also got winds aloft at 60 knots and gusty - I'm being thrown around something fierce in my 767. yay!
_________________ CVA (established in 1997) is 23 years old this year!
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Cal Jordan (CVA371)
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Post subject: Re: Wx settings with SquawkBox Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2011 6:22 pm |
Joined: Sat Mar 08, 2008 7:59 pm Posts: 1016 Location: Kelowna, BC
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Yes it's normal, I've had 140 knot head winds and tail winds, also if you airspeed quits and goes to 0 turn the pitot heat on. pitot and engine heat should be on at or below 0*C and the engines may have reduced power if icing occurs.
_________________ Not using FSX anymore, using only FS2020 and some flights with VR (Oculus)
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Rob Vanderkam
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Post subject: Re: Wx settings with SquawkBox Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2011 12:38 am |
Joined: Wed Jul 16, 2003 1:16 am Posts: 2586 Location: Ottawa
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Cal Jordan (CVA371) wrote: ...I've had 140 knot head winds and tail winds... Is that at the same time, Cal? I think I'm going to give up on this rw winds. I don't mind dealing with wind factors in flying, but this 767 gets really thrown around as a matter of course - with gusts I guess. That's not real. I've rarely heard of it and I've had a lot of 40th birthdays. But this happens every flight the whole time enroute.
_________________ CVA (established in 1997) is 23 years old this year!
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