Weather Minimums

[olseric]

Dan, this one is to you.

Recently, I flew into an airport where the weather was at ILS mimimums. It was not windy, it was not rainy, but it was foggy as all hell.

At any rate, I noticed that I did not get any "extreme weather" bonus for this. I tried it at another airport with the same sort of conditions and
did not receive anything there either.

I'm sure that your engine looks for turbulence and precipitation as qualifiers for that, but how hard would it be to add visibility as one as
well? Say, anything under 1SM and/or a ceiling of 200-300 feet AGL?

I think for the most part, most CAT I ILS approaches are right around 200-1. Thoughts? Ideas?

[SWAFO]

I agree. If I was a PAX on a commercial flight, I would definetly be frightened if I was told we're about to land, and I can't even see the
ground!

[MattNW]

SWAFO wrote:
I agree. If I was a PAX on a commercial flight, I would definetly be frightened if I was told we're about to land, and I can't even see the
ground!

Why worry? The ground is always down and you can't miss it. No matter what you do you will eventually end up on the ground.

[DanSteph]

You won't believe but this value (distance view) is not available by the SDK.
I searched hard about it but without succes yet...

For me Fs2006 would be a success if they reniew the SDK allowing us a lot more feature...
I don't have much faith in this anyway the 2004 SDK was very late with almost nothing news.

Dan

[kvuo]

ohh. that sux!

microsoft sux!

so it has to actually be raining or snowing for pax to be "impressed by weather condition".. bummer

[DanSteph]

kvuo wrote:
so it has to actually be raining or snowing for pax to be "impressed by weather condition".. bummer

FsP detect wind and turbulence also but not visibility yet...

[SWAFO]

That's really odd. Visibility is one of the prevailing determining factors in flying! Too bad!

[eazy]

Dan, any chance to get these values through FSUIPC ?

[DanSteph]

no but I'll try again to find them...

Dan

[olseric]

Oh wow. I can't believe they wouldn't put that in.

I actually was a passenger on a CAT II or better approach once... KMSP-EHAM...we could not SEE the runway or ground until we were ON
it. No clue what it looked like from the front, but, from the cattle car, it was fogged in.

[Mud]

For whats worth it, foggy weather prevent you for taking off or land by ATC in VFR so there must be a parameter somewhere.


-Mud

[SWAFO]

Very true... it's gotta be linked in with FS9 somehow