I will have to get the E6B out and check it out.P3Dv5.1 totally works if installed correctly and one thing should be noted about addons, even Orbx products is that some sim objects that were made a certain way, will not interact with TrueSky correctly (unless they are re-made) as they may have been used in the past using outdated and non-supported techniques. Seems if ActiveSky and ADDS was reporting the winds at 17000 305/58 then they were from 319 mag and my course was around 272 mag there should have been more of a right correction needed instead of the left crab, I still can't imagine why with the heavy headwind my groundspeed was so much faster that IAS which I realize is much less than true at that altitude. I will experiment with the winds aloft another time. If FS ATIS ( I was calling it A-automated W-weather O-observation S-station and that is what we call it at our local airport KSCH on freq 119.27) is giving the info in MSL instead of AGL the cloud bases jibe. I have read the excellent users guide several times and have done all the suggestions and ActiveSky's suggestions. I'm not sure how any of this report possibly relates to your last one.
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The difference in cloudbase wouldn't be the ground level, would it? Perhaps one is AGL and the other AMSL - I think some of that stuff is confused in FS in any case. The difference in speed between 15 and 16 is probably rounding and can be ignored. If the mag var is around 14 then they would match. What is the magnetic variation there? The METAR reports will be in degrees TRUE, the surface winds in FS2002 are in degrees magnetic usually. If fact I cannot even determine what country it is in - the AW prefix doesn't seem to be used. Where is AWOS? It isn't in my index of airports, nor in my Jeppesen database. So what's this to do with winds at 17000 feet? You seem to be reeling off loads of disconnected observations none of which helps paint a picture at all, far from it. I also noticed on the ground that with all the data from ActiveSky the Activesky ATIS (122.00 with my airport) said winds 050/15, sky OVC 1500, FS tuned to the airport AWOS said 064/16, sky Broken 1900, vis and temp/alt were identical. I double checked, I was wrong the Advanced weather only showed me the correct surface winds. If the winds are set correctly in FS's own weather dialogues, then the other factors should follow, but you need to interpolate between layers even then. On top of this if your have wind transitions and smoothing enabled those add other factors.Īs you might now realise, it is really impossible for me to comment without a great deal more information. The winds aloft aren't in bands of fixed direction/speed, but vary between defined later "centres". In Fs2002 the direction shown is degrees True, not Magnetic. Where are you reading the wind details? Shift+Z tells you the ambient wind at the aircraft.
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Under advance weather settings the correct winds aloft were there.
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I was flying at 17000 where the winds were from 305 at 58 kts, my aircraft had an IAS of 230, heading 252 to maintain a ground track of 278 and my GPS was saying a ground speed of 268! The GS and heading seemed the opposites of what they should have been, I expected a hefty right heading correction and significant loss of GS.