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It never tries to pull the absolute latest weather because the way weather trickles into the weather server (from which x-Plane and PilotEdge pull the data), if you only pull once per hour, at a random time during the hour, not all of the weather stations will have sent in their weather reports, and you'll have incomplete data. The weather it attempts to pull is ~2 hours old if memory serves. To your question, X-Plane pulls the weather every hour (the clocks starts when you first launch X-Plane). That means you'll be giving up some functionality that is unique to X-Plane by swapping to a weather plugin. None of them have the ability to set cloud layers the way X-Plane's native engine does. I know I've posted this in other threads, but I'm skeptical about any weather plugins for X-Plane. Sorry for the long post - does anyone have any ideas about this? I assume that without a note saying otherwise, the controllers act as if your sim weather will match what they're looking at on the scope. I also realize that people will often set different weather in the sim, but they say so in their flightplan and the controllers are aware.
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I don't believe the PE client pushes weather (like VATSIM for example), so I'm not sure how to get the controllers and the sim to match up - since both are as 'real-world' accurate as we can be. Is there any way to sync the sim weather and the controller weather? At least as far as wind speed/direction and baro pressure? I'm less concerned about cloud cover / rain etc. I also don't want to pause my sim, and try to manually correct the weather to what the controller gives me, cause that would cause real problems for other pilots and the controllers. I can't ask for the opposite runway because all the other traffic is using the runway I was assigned. Normally this isn't a problem, but several times recently I've been assigned a landing runway that gives me a fairly significant tailwind in the sim.
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Correct? Because of this, I often find that my sim weather doesn't match the weather that the controllers are looking at. However, (and please correct me if I'm wrong) I believe that the PE controllers are looking at the actual, real-world, up to the min weather conditions. I realize, even when using the x-plane 'download real world weather' there is a delay between the sim and the real-life weather conditions. I've been thinking a lot about the weather in X-plane with the release of the FS Global Real Weather plugin (has anyone tried it?).