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FSX Setting winds aloft

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Hi there,

I'm setting global weather via SimConnect_WeatherSetObservation() using the "GLOB" airport designator. Surface winds setting work almost correct, the clouds move in the correct direction and speed.

As the extendend METAR string provides the possibility to send a depth of the wind layer in meters, I expect the clouds to stop moving once I place them above the surface wind layer. The clouds move on, even if I have them at 30'000 feet.

Example
GLOB METAR 0123 010060KT&D1524NG 50KM&B0001&D9999 OVC088

I couldn't get winds aloft (everything after @@@) working at all to have the clouds move up there in mulitple different wind layers.

Example
GLOB METAR 0123 010060KT&D1524NG 50KM&B0001&D9999 OVC088 @@@ 300 15 010 060

Could this be a bug within SimConnect?

Regards,

P.
 
You might want to search for this in the FSUIPC forum over at simFlight. Importing weather through SimConnect can result in quite a mess if I recall correctly.

Pete Dowson @ http://forums.simflight.com/viewtopic.php?f=54&t=78879#p479804

"There is another, extra, bug in FSX which makes it worse than FS9. When weather is set via the SimConnect interface (which is the only way known for FSX), the upper wind and temperature layers get into a right mess, getting cduplicated and triplicated, sometimes with layers only a few metres apart. This plays terrible havoc with any wind and temperature progression through the altitudes."

Daniel
 
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