Re: Just The Wind 2012 DVDRip Torrent
Raingarda Krzynowek
I'm running v2.4.4 on P3D v4.5 via WideFS. LNM has been fine for ages but today I keep getting "Error downloading wind data. Connection closed." messages. I can still access the folder containing current_wx_snapshot.txt from the WideFS PC so that doesn't appear to be the problem.
This two year old problem raised by Ray Proudfoot has just popped up on my LNM in the last few days....anyone else have it again recently? When I do test both the NOAA server and weather, I get positive results...so, what gives? Thanks...
We @BigMike87 and I have noticed that no matter what aircraft we use, the winds entered by hand simply disappear and another value is taken. This happens with all aircraft A319/A321/A346, on every flight we did, either in sharedcockpit or solo, therefore the question is whether this is normal or a bug? It is important that the winds remain in the MCDU so that the fuel calculation is correct.
Hey, we're aware of that and it actually wasn't the question, I'll try to put it another way. It is about the fact that at a certain point in the flight path (which is not known to us now) the winds in the MCDU are simply deleted and replaced by a random other value. Hope the concern is now clearer
Upate: @rmx4ever and I noticed that this seems to occur whenever we reach a cruising level (ALT CRZ). We just had the same issue when step climbing from FL350 to FL370 and we are pretty certain it also happened when we reached our initial cruising level FL350.
Hi @Thomo! Trying out your method right now. Even though we inserted the average wind, the fuel prediction still seems to fluctuate significantly depending on the actual wind we are experiencing. We will keep an eye on our fuel situation, thanks for your suggestion. Very strange behavior indeed for an FMS.
I am on XP12 using the latest versions of the Airbus family, no Active Sky XP this time (obviously ), using live weather, and using Simbrief and yet I am not able to download the winds into the FMS. When I try, it will only download the climb winds but only until about 6000-7000ft and none of the cruise and descent winds. Furthermore, after manually inserting all the winds, during cruise the cruise winds get overwritten, with what I suppose are supposed to be the actual winds at the current waypoint but for all of the remaining waypoints thus making my fuel prediction rather inaccurate. This occurs on the A319, A321, A21N (have not tried the A346 yet).
I download it on the ground. I first do an "INIT REQUEST" which works, put in the SID and STAR and then Request the Wind. Tried variation of that with before and after loading PAX and Cargo be it via the ISCS panel or SAM3, makes no difference.
These are currently all my plugins. Not sure which plugin could be interfering here and I am reluctant to deactivate all as this seems to be somewhat excessive in order to get the winds download to work in my humble opinion.
Okay, now it's getting weird. I disabled all plugins and I was able download the winds accordingly. I then started reactivating each plugin one by one and testing over and over again to isolate the plugin which caused the problem. I reactivated all plugins and all works fine now. Restarted XP12 multiple times and it still works so now I have run out of ideas as I am reasonably certain this issue will return as I haven't changed anything in my setup.
Just an update to those who are wondering, wind download seems to work now for me and that rather consistently which is good. The only thing I did differently from before is that after requesting INIT and after it loaded the entire plan into the FMGC, I then downloaded the winds immediately after with success and with all my plugins enabled so yay!
The only other issue I am still experiencing is that the enroute winds still get overwritten once I reach cruising level or performing a step climb (which I reported higher up in this thread for the XP11 versions of the Toliss airbus fleet), thus completely throwing off my FMS fuel predictions. Would be kind of cool if there were a fix for that.
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