Real Weather Injection

[MFarhadi]

Greetings everybody,


First of all, It hasn't been more than two days since I bought the simulator and, "Wow"! I can't believe I had missed out on this beast all these years.

Had some questions from the get-go.
I use PFPX for planning and was wondering if it is possible to inject realistic NOAA aloft weather into the sim.


Best,
Reza

[Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers]

Yes; look into the "Wind and OAT Corridor" feature. Unfortunately this is not directly available in PSX, it needs the (paid) NG FMC "and more" upgrade package.
There are a few planners that spit out a data format that PSX can ingest directly. The Forum has quite some detail on it, but it's scattered around.

Here's the NG FMC manual:
https://aerowinx.com/downloads/AerowinxNgFmcManual.pdf

Hoppie

[Will]

Just expanding on what Jeroen said... The Wind Corridor feature basically reads the wind table from your PFPX flight plan, and pulls those winds into PSX, with a user-defined degree of random variation. Once you activate the corridor feature by installing the "NG and More" extension, then your workflow goes like this:

1. Plan your flight in PFPX
2. Copy the "winds aloft" section of your PFPX flight plan...
3. ... and paste it into the "Wind Corridor" box in PSX

That's it... then when you fly along those points, your PSX winds will match the winds in your flight plan. Plus or minus, of course, a user-defined degree of random variation. The corridor is as long as your route, and 1000 nm wide (500 nm on either side of your route). As you deviate from the centerline of your route, the corridor winds smoothly transition to the winds in the PSX universe.

Anyway, see the NG FMC and More manual, starting on page 77.

[MFarhadi]

Dear Will and Jeroen,

Thanks for the help! Yes, I do have the NG FMC addon but didn't know if I could insert my own "winds aloft" into the corridor.

Best,
Reza

[Gary Oliver]

Reza,

This is another benefit of using Simfest planning and BACARS.

When you initialise a route it will fill your wind corridor in for you without any copying and pasting. 

See the related threads for info.


Cheers
G

[MFarhadi]

Reza,

This is another benefit of using Simfest planning and BACARS.

When you initialise a route it will fill your wind corridor in for you without any copying and pasting.

See the related threads for info.


Cheers
G

Dear Gary,

I tried using the dispatch software in conjunction with the BACARS. However, seemingly I cannot add any schedules nor plan any flights, coming up with an error stating, "An error has occurred. This application may no longer respond until reloaded". Are there any errors on my side, and should've done something differently that I'm missing?
Certainly, keen on the option you've presented and looking forward to using it!

Best,
Reza

[JulietAlphaSierra]

Dear Gary,

I tried using the dispatch software in conjunction with the BACARS. However, seemingly I cannot add any schedules nor plan any flights, coming up with an error stating, "An error has occurred. This application may no longer respond until reloaded". Are there any errors on my side, and should've done something differently that I'm missing?
Certainly, keen on the option you've presented and looking forward to using it!

Best,
Reza

I am also suffering this issue. Any help would be much appreciated

Fixed it, wasnt registered on the original site

[macroflight]

and should've done something differently that I'm missing?

The Simfest portal can be a little finicky... Things I avoid in the current version:

- Preferences: you cannot use the aircraft type 747ER (the other 747 types are OK) - Simbrief will not recognize it
- Preferences: you cannot use "Auto" for Default Taxi In or Out time (if you do you get the "page may no longer respond" error
- Schedule: the Departure Time must be on the HHMM format (no colon, Zulu time). Entering e.g "12:00" gives you the "page may no longer respond" error 
- Airport Briefings: clicking the tab gives you "page may no longer be responding". You can still access the briefings using URLs on the format https://planning.simfest.co.uk/rim/EGLL.pdf (but there are of course not briefings for all the world's airports...)
- The Crew Statistics and Previous Flights tabs only work for Crew Simfest, I think.

You also need to be logged into Simbrief in the web browser you use for the Simfest portal. And you of course need to be logged into the Simfest portal.

There might be other little gremlins about, but just spent 30 minutes trying to break the portal and the ones above were the only ones that gave "page may no longer respond" or a Simbrief failure.

Historically, there's also been times when the Simbrief popup gets stuck at 100%. Something will then appear in the Briefing tab, but it's not a usable flight plan and BACARS can't load it. Usually this goes away on its own after hours or days. Sometimes pointing it out to Gary can help (I guess he restarts the portal), but not always.

[Gary Oliver]

Thanks for a list of bugs to fix Macroflight :-)

Sounds like the other issues were not registering on the original page before creating a new planning account - something I really should fix some time!