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Spranget

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Are there tornadoes or hurricanes in FS weather? If not, is there an add-on that has them. Also, what was that program that follows real-world weather and does it hog up frame rates? Thanks in advance for the help.
 
I don't know about virtual hurricanes or tornadoes, but real world weather is a stock FS9 feature. That would include real world hurricanes, but I'm not so sure about tornadoes; they might be too small in scale and too transitory for real world weather to detect and portray them.

You might fiddle around with the weather themes SDK and see if you can make a hurricane or a tornado.
 
I use FSMetars for my real time weather. It does not put a dint in frame rates, updates every minute on the minute and refreshes the sim every 15 seconds.

OBIO
 
I bounced around in a Cub and some other light or STOL aircraft at a few Florida airports a few years back when they had 3 or 5 hurricanes roll through that state.

My guess is that hurricanes aren't modeled as a complete system in MSFS; rather, what you get are a number of individual, local surface observations, (er, METARS). So you can experience the effects at various locales over time, but if you gassed up a hurricane hunter and cruised out to the eye, you wouldn't 'see' anything since FS WX is just weather-reporting site data downloaded periodically.

Just a theory... If anyone has tried the latter, I welcome your input.
 
I've found that if you check the actual metars for an airport and then download and compare the default FS real weather and FSmetar weather, FSmetar is almost always more accurate. The FS weather sometimes seems to not work at all, meaning it downloads but has no relation to what the real weather is supposed to be like.
 
Hi,
It looks as if the site has not been updated for some time, and it will not allow me to download because of my 'security settings', but is the program available somewhere?
thanks,

andy.
 
Users of the freeware weather tool "GetWeather" can make use of those files from the hurricane Isabel back in 2003:

[FONT=verdana, sans-serif]Category: Flight Simulator 2002 - Miscellaneous Files[/FONT] [FONT=verdana, sans-serif]FS2002 Real Weather for 09/18/2003 - Hurricane Isabel [/FONT]

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[FONT=verdana, sans-serif]File Description:[/FONT]
[FONT=verdana, sans-serif]Hurricane Isabel struck the state of Virginia with tremendous force. Using any of the WX files included you can see what it�s like to fly in such conditions. Visibility at some airports goes down to 1/16th of a mile, giving you fantastic instrument practice! The wind speeds peak at 60 Knots in some areas. Full instructions included! Test your instrument flying skills! [/FONT]
[FONT=verdana, sans-serif]Filename:[/FONT][FONT=verdana, sans-serif]isabel.zip[/FONT][FONT=verdana, sans-serif]License:[/FONT][FONT=verdana, sans-serif]Freeware[/FONT][FONT=verdana, sans-serif]Added:[/FONT][FONT=verdana, sans-serif]23rd September 2003[/FONT][FONT=verdana, sans-serif]Downloads:[/FONT][FONT=verdana, sans-serif]1139[/FONT][FONT=verdana, sans-serif]Author:[/FONT][FONT=verdana, sans-serif]Darren Boon[/FONT][FONT=verdana, sans-serif]Size:[/FONT][FONT=verdana, sans-serif]1442kb[/FONT]
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I think they work with FS2004 too...

Cheers,
Markus.
 
Since hurricanes are often well defined, I tried to make one by selecting only one weather station and giving it the works for wind, rain, etc. Inside it was suitably difficult but once I flew out of it and looked back it was all clear weather. Could just be my machine but I was hoping to get that hurricane look from any distance and fly into that black wall cloud and get slammed.
I found the METARS instructions a bit thin. Is there an entry change I have to make in the FS9 CFG to make this work?
 
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