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I am using VB 2008 Express to create a interface to my flight website and realized making a FSX connection might be useful. Thanks to Jimis8buttons tutorial, I was able to begin to transmit/receive info from FSX. Anyway, I thought it would be valuable to have a textbox to enter a ICAO code into, then a button that requests the metar from FSX and displays it on the form for that station.

I am having some trouble deciphering the sdk's c++ weather example in trying to make it work in VB as this is all very new to me.

Could someone push me in the right direction as to how I might pull the METAR from FSX by ICAO in Visual Basic?

The work you all do here and for the flight sim community simply amazes me, thank you for having this forum available!
 
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hi all!
I wonder does this function, SimConnect_WeatherRequestObservationAtStation(), work for the current airport only?

I wanted it to return METAR for any airport but it doesn't work. I can receive data for current airport only (where the aircraft is located) inside the "case SIMCONNECT_RECV_ID_WEATHER_OBSERVATION".
All other airport requests end up with "SIMCONNECT_EXCEPTION_WEATHER_UNABLE_TO_GET_OBSERVATION". As mentioned somewhere in manuals, I keep polling constantly and wait for 15 seconds and more, but it doesn't help. Still getting the mentioned exception with no METAR data.

Then I thought I have to wrap them into different 'REQUEST_WEATHER's instead of utilizing a single one (DATA_REQUEST_ID) but changing it doesn't help as well.

Has anyone tried this function, what am I doing wrong?
 
Could it be just because of a reality bubble?
Now I tried it when standing at LOWI and requested LOWI and EGLL, and it worked!

1st time I tried at EPGD, requesting EPGD, EPKK and EDDF. Only the 1st airport data was returned.
Anyway it's still weird because IIRC distance b/w LOWI and EGLL should be even greater than b/w EPGD, EPKK and EDDF.
Totally confused.
 
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