How Real Weather works in X-Plane

I cannot stress enough how great you guys have made x plane! Thank you for continuing to put in the work to make it great and to still be up there with MSFS, I’ve used both sims and I do think x plane is superior. I do use one addon for x-plane that really does bring it to the next level, auto ortho, but other than that, it’s basically a vanilla sim other than a few custom airports and aircraft

Wonderful stuff. Thank you for what you do. I love the sim and the progress it's making. Please keep going. It's miles above MSFS in many areas. I LOVE taxiing aircraft in XP. Taxiing anything in MSFS is immersion-breaking. MSFS is great at certain things, but XP has so many strengths.

I love X-Plane! Thanks for this explanation.

Love xplane!!

Many thanks for this. Love XP12 and use it all days 😊😊

Love that you guys got weather to be read in the game. Can’t wait to be able to control the pitch hopefully for say the Zibo 737-800 WXR. Been waiting for this for years in both sims.

This is indeed a new level of realism that is impressive. My only disappointments are the fact that when I upgraded, I lost the use of many 3rd party products I had invested in secondly, being from Canada, I was very disappointed seeing no ground accumulation during the winter months even if this data is available. The only time I saw the white stuff was when it was snowing, otherwise green grass in Quebec in January is killing the realism. I hope this gets addressed sooner than later. I saw the fine particle programming in a recent UT video and how it will translate for helicopter landings in snow, I hope this will not be “green” snow…

you do fantastic job. i love flying xplane and i fly it for practicing for future pilot licence. thanks a lot!

Great vid, great sim, great work and thank you so much for supporting other platforms than Windows! I am using XP12 at Linux (Debian) and it works great!

Austin, note that the surface winds are entered in MSL not AGL. I have seen this at multiple locations that are located above sea level. Surface wind reports dont match METAR.

Hi Austin, really loving the X-Plane 12 experience. With all this new weather system, as there any practical use for addons like Active Sky anymore?

I think you're doing a pretty decent job looking out my window too.

I do like the improved dynamic weather, but there is one issue that I have with the weather--specifically wind direction and speed in X-Plane 12. For example, Skyvector (which I used for real-world flight planning until I was medically grounded) showed winds at KIDA 330 @ 9, but X-Plane 12 showed winds "Light and variable," which wasn't accurate. The "Light and variable" shows up quite often in X-Plane 12 when I click on various airports along my planned route, when the actual winds are neither light nor variable in the real world. Why is this?

Oh that is fantastisch.. we will enjoy this new feature

Hello Austin the author of X-Plane !

X-plane is still my primary sim. No need for weather addons in XP. One issue I hope you can have a look at: when in crz, temperature changes between grid cells and some aircrafts struggle with the rate of temperature change. Could you have a look at the rate? Been up to 700ft off assigned flightlevel before the aircraft is able to return to correct level. The zibo is just able to maintain, but inisim a300 is not. Makes it no fly on vatsim :(

Im using the latest version of XP12. I love the weather. But could you please put some effort into getting your real world weather to match the default air traffic controls active runways. It gets frustrating having to choose between one or the other. Thank you.

This has gone a looong way since X-Plane 5 and its 3 layer manually adjusted weather with an option of downloading METAR in a form of txt file from some university ftp (long defunct) 😊

Please fix the broken cockpit lighting, the sun shines through the back of the cockpit and walls at low sun* angles/dusk/dawn and when it's cloudy. It's been too long now 🙏

Nice weather! dont mind if i yabadabado