Hurricane chasing

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I have not observed any hard rule pertaining to this. I flew through a tropical cyclone "Conson" which met the named storm and wind speed minimum near Japan two weeks ago.
There is no observed geographical limitation.
I do not know what data sources are used for gathering hurricane reports.

The only reliable information on whether you will see specific storm artifacts when you fly is if the storm shows up in the program Hurricane list and you fly near it while it is still in the list.
If you hunt for cyclones not in the list, you will not see any special hurricane representation other than generalized interpolated fronts assuming there is specific atmospheric data for the area.
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[CaptKornDog]

Links to an invalid attachment.

 

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When I click on them I get the image. Try refreshing.

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[pcubine]

When I click on them I get the image. Try refreshing.

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Refreshing makes no difference. Still no images. Just an invalid attachment

 

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Hurricane Conson images:



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[damian]

We're working on an issue discovered with recent storm data synthesis, and expect to have this resolved soon (on the server end).

 

[FireRx]

Thanks, Damian

 

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Karl is expected to briefly become a hurricane on Sunday as it moves NE over central Pacific, then fade soon afterward.
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[Wise87]

Just tried to fly into Hurricane Matthew which is currently a Cat-4 and ActiveSky 16 doesn't show squawt. Anyone else having any luck?

 

[Wise87]

We're working on an issue discovered with recent storm data synthesis, and expect to have this resolved soon (on the server end).

Any update on this?

 

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Confirmed Mathew is not being displayed as expected.

If it doesn't show up in the Hurricane list, it will not show up in the application or sim, so don't waste your time flying there expecting to see it.
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[CaptKornDog]

No Matthew here either.

 

[vgbaron]

Matthew shows up fine in both the prior and current (6118) builds. Listed in named and able to locate in map, search etc.

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[xender]

What im supposed to see with activesky hurricane depiction?

Im getting closer and closer to matthew's eye and i cant see anything special. At FL230 i can see the blue skies above me. All around my aircraft i see thunderstorm columns everywhere, and light to moderate turbulence. no rain at all. I cant see the sea below.

Now im at 10,000 and its much the same. If i look up i can still see blue skies above me. On my weather radar i dont have anything that resembles a hurricane eye, nor i can identify anything special outside. To my surprise only light rain! This is supposed to be a cat4 hurricane.

The only thing special that i can notice is the winds (99 knots) and the barometric pressure (956 hpa).

I was expecting to see the eye wall, strong turbulence, at 10,000 feet no visibility or very low. the flight of my life. If this is how a hurricane is depicted, just a bunch of storm cells and light intermitent rain, im dissapointed.

I have the cloud coverage option set to maximun, and the hurricane depiction set

 

[vgbaron]

That's exactly what I see in P3D 3.4. In map view, if you pull out far enough you can see the entire structure including the eye. When I am in th eye, in spot view, if I do a 360 I see clouds. Not sure what you are expecting to see.



Vic

 

[xender]

Yep, i can see that too.

But what i mean is inside the sim. Can you see the eye wall inside the sim?

 

[jabloomf1230]

Yesterday I flew into Hurricane Matthew and used the AS16 map view to guide me into where the radar reflections were non-existent (which also coincides with the wind speed minimum). The eye is not circular, but rather irregular, probably because of the way that the hurricane is assembled from thunderstorm clouds. Don't use the cloud cover map, since the hurricane structure appears to be a "canned" satellite view of a typical hurricane. I could be wrong on this, because Matthew is the only storm that I've looked at since the bug was fixed in AS16.

 

[vgbaron]

Well, flying through the wall puts me in a clear area with clouds 360 around me, so I'd say yes. I also get violent turbulence and sometimes severe up and down drafts. But if I go top down, I do not see a circular wall per se.
Vic

 

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Flew across the edge of Mathew in beta build 6118 on the following track and encountered the hurricane at this location apprx 1730 Zulu:



When taking off from MKJP in a fairly study C130 Hercules, flew into a TS cell soon after and broke the plane.

Nearing the storm, it looked like this:





I had to be very careful using the scanning radar to fly around the bright portion of the cells.

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[bray]

Newbie here with trial version...flew into the hurricane and was surprised to see scattered puffy whitish clouds, some rain, some turbulence and 99 kt winds...flew at 10000 feet. I would have expected darker clouds and with poor visibility. the AS16 voice ATIS stated 0.6sm vis. I was seeing well over 10 miles.

Also I departed from MKJP in rain. Real life pictures out of Kingston showed dark clouds, poor vis and very overcast, with low ceiling

I am using AS16 with all default settings so not sure if I need to do some tweaking

Want to make the most of the trial. So far it does look very good compared to my other wx engines
Thanks
Bill