MSFS In-depth weather tutorial

Hello flight simmers, and welcome back to Alpha Hotel Flight Simulator Training.

In this video, we'll peel back the curtain and take a deep dive into the weather settings in MSFS. The weather system can be used to provide live weather, set up beautiful flight environments to fly in (or make videos in 😄) create challenging weather scenarios to tackle, create realistic instrument weather for IFR practice, or to create completely unrealistic weather to have fun with.

The weather system also has some quirks, and is still a work in progress - so we'll talk about those quirks and rough edges, and how to work around them.

This video was created with build version 1.29.22.0 - which was the public Beta of sim update 11 released on October 12, 2022. The changes to the weather system with sim update 11 have been minimal, though, and mostly relate to enhances to the live weather system - so this video should be accurate for everyone currently using sim update 10 as well.

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All charts used in this lesson are available at SkyVector.com

Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
01:43 - Options that affect weather
06:33 - Icing effects options
10:05 - World map weather menu
15:05 - In-flight weather menu
17:48 - Time, date, live weather
18:52 - Using weather presets
24:03 - Altitude calculation
27:00 - Humidity and pressure
31:17 - Temperature and lapse rate
39:59 - Lightning and snow depth
43:58 - Rain and snowfall
46:32 - Precip and visibility
49:32 - Clouds overview
57:23 - Cloud bases and tops
1:01:31 - Weather for instrument approaches
1:07:01 - Ground and valley fog
1:08:55 - Wind
1:18:46 - Hover Taxi??