Plan-G and OpusFSX Weather

[Hangar34]

I have setup my flightplan and want to know what weather I will experience en-route, so while connected to FSX and using OpusFSX for weather depiction I open the Plan-G weather window. Despite pressing the refresh button several times, all I ever get is the weather at the departure aerodrome - nothing en-route. If I disconnect from FSX, and just try loading NWS weather, I don't get anything at all.

I have tried connecting to FSX via SimConnect and FSUIPC. I also have both options ticked for updating the weather when connected to FS in the Options section.

Any ideas why en-route weather is not being displayed?

Thanks

[Hangar34]

Further investigation would suggest that because my flightplan is to/from small UK aerodromes, Plan-G is not pulling enough local METARs from NOAA to accurately give me weather either at the departure aerodrome or anywhere along the route. OpusFSX also pulls its METAR data from NOAA, but has a much more extensive list of METAR strings, so they are available.

I guess this is one area of Plan-G that requires some additional and further development.

[tim arnot]

You would need to include actual weather station locations in your flight plan. Plan-G does not currently hunt out the nearest weather station to arbitary waypoints.

[Hangar34]

Hi Tim,

Thanks for your reply.

This is the conclusion that I had come to as I was able to get weather reporting back when I added a couple of major airports to the plan.
Are there any plans to implement the ability for the software to locate the nearest weather stations and supply information about weather conditions en-route without including the stations as specific waypoints?

Cheers.

[kevinfirth]

Hi Tim
I think this would be a really useful feature if you could implement it. It would make realistic weather planning a breeze without having to artificially force the issue by using a waypoint that you don't actually want to.
Cheers
K