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Title: Simulated UTC vs Real time UTC
Post by: Ton van Bochove on Tue, 14 Jan 2020 16:11
It happened several times now that during a long haul trip the simulated UTC changes to real world UTC. This gives some odd OOOI results  8) known problem?
Title: Re: Simulated UTC vs Real time UTC
Post by: Hardy Heinlin on Tue, 14 Jan 2020 16:22
It's not a problem, it's a feature :-) If you activate the METAR download feature, your simulated time will autoswitch to real-world time. This is intentional and plausible because these current METARs come from the real world at the current real-world time. E.g. it makes no sense to simulate a winter night while your current METAR sets conditions for a summer day etc.

Once it has autoswitched, you can keep changing your simulated time as you like. But I wouldn't do this during a planned, continuous flight.


Regards,

|-|ardy
Title: Re: Simulated UTC vs Real time UTC
Post by: Ton van Bochove on Tue, 14 Jan 2020 19:51
Thanks Hardy, I love these "features" ;-) But it sounds logical.