Career Mode Weather

[Argentvive]

I've been getting extreme turbulence on ALL my career mode missions - both those that use real world weather and those that don't. And I do mean extreme turbulence. It's making landing light aircraft exceedingly difficult. And on one occasion I had a Beechcraft Bonanza seemingly fall straight down out of the sky for no apparent reason.

Strangely, this only seems to affect career. Everything flies normally in free flight.

I'm curious if anyone else has had this problem and knows of a solution.

[Axium]

pretty sure weather in career mode is bugged according to some people. if have live weather turned off then go into ATC comms should see an option to "enable/disable ignore weather conditions for this airport"

[Niar]

Same here, nearly crashed my g2 at denver.

[BlackDog1247]

The turbulence is like a freaking cat 5 hurricane pushing my Skyhawk

[Malkuth]

I think it works like this... (GUESSING)
System takes Live METAR info (Weather) from your mission area.
Compare it to your certs.. IE Instrument rating (flying bad weather)
If you don't have the certs it takes aways the clouds and rain (you can't fly it yet)
Also checks to see if your plane can do it....
When it gets to the wind, it checks your planes Wind Rating (max wind it can fly in) and if its higher, subtracts some number for it goes below the plane rating. And bam, you have your mission weather.

In most your cases you can check what the weather is in the area your flying and compare it. So if your flying 10 missions in one night in the same region area.. Most likely its going to suck if your area has bad weather and your flying the 172. 24 hour later its sunny and clear/no wind your flying in same area without issues.. This is most certainly the way its programed.

Again this is only a guess.. But as a part time programer thats how I would do it.

[Drizzt]

HeLLo, today I just can't fly, wind is strong and Cessna..... lol

[PNGamer]

How do you turn off and on live weather in career mode?

[Malkuth]

Originally posted by PNGamer:

How do you turn off and on live weather in career mode?

You can't. There is an option before you accept to the mission in lower right hand corner that says "Clouds". You can select it on/off.
I don't know for sure but I think that might make the weather gone... But I don't know for sure because the area I fly in right now has been nice weather. It might just clear out the clouds too.

[NowMeowMeowNow]

Originally posted by Argentvive:

I've been getting extreme turbulence on ALL my career mode missions - both those that use real world weather and those that don't. And I do mean extreme turbulence. It's making landing light aircraft exceedingly difficult. And on one occasion I had a Beechcraft Bonanza seemingly fall straight down out of the sky for no apparent reason.

Strangely, this only seems to affect career. Everything flies normally in free flight.

I'm curious if anyone else has had this problem and knows of a solution.

You in the UK?

I was wondering if it's set to real world weather as we have storm at the moment and I'm getting some strong winds in sim.

[tmaddox]

I just crashed at the end of a 2 hour charter flight because my plane got pushed around so much while trying to land, basically negating that two hours and costing me all my built up money and then some in repairs. Made me get off the game and say I am going to play something else this afternoon.

This was, if I am not mistaken, was a 1 star mission. I thought those were supposed to be easier but there was nothing easy in trying to compensate for those winds on landing.

[BLACK®]

I had the same problem with turbulence on a 1-star mission. Luckily I was able to bring the bird down, but I was thrown through the air in all directions at speeds of 300-600 m/s.

[PNGamer]

The weather in Career mode feels like you are trying to fly through a hurricane at times. It really needs to be tuned.

[aeternali]

I am having the exact same issue during career missions. I had a Cessna 172 flight go from over speed to stall while in level flight.