DVA1178
Captain, B737-800
Joined on April 13 2003
Midwestern United States
69 legs, 127.6 hours
5 legs,
9.3 hours online 11 legs,
26.7 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
October 23 2005 13:40 ET by Ralph Scharpf
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I just took off from Atlanta to San Jose, CA. I always fly with the real time weather settings (FS9 default, no addon) updated medium.
So I'm up at my cruise altitude and I notice that my ground speed seems way low for my IAS. I look and see that I have a wind of 99 from the west. I check METAR near Atlanta and find no wind.
SO I just go to the options, VERIFY (not change anything) that real weather is on, click OK, then it appears to re-download the weather.. suddenly I have 0 winds.. my plane drops to an IAS of about 200, but then recovers.. so everything is then ok
I'm just wondering if anyone has ever seen this and if there's a solution (I have a registered copy of FSUIPC but I don't think I have any weather options set there)
Jeff
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DVA1041
Senior Captain, L-1011-100
E-MAIL
Joined on January 15 2003
Double Century Club
DVA Twenty-Year Anniversary
"Fly Delta Jets!" Cincinnati, OH
233 legs, 780.6 hours
66 legs,
123.7 hours online 20 legs,
39.6 hours ACARS 5 legs,
7.5 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
October 23 2005 15:24 ET by Matt Creed
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Jeff,
There's no glitch or issue. When the headwind dropped from 99 to zero, you basically lost 99 knots worth of airspeed. If your autothrottle was on, then your engines picked up to compensate for the loss, got the IAS back to where it should have been, and went on with life, and I'll bet you saw a substantial increase in groundspeed after everything stabliized.
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DVA2253
Senior Captain, DC-8-61
COMM
Joined on April 01 2005
Everett 250 Club
Online Century Club
Eight Century Club
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary
"I'd rather be flying!" Church Hill, TN USA
862 legs, 1,344.5 hours
108 legs,
165.2 hours online 299 legs,
485.1 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
October 23 2005 16:29 ET by George Lewis
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DVA2020
Captain, L-1011-100
Joined on November 24 2004
DVA Five-Year Anniversary
Piston Prop Professional
Piranha Club
Century Club
Newport News, VA USA
109 legs, 248.1 hours
20 legs,
36.7 hours online 63 legs,
136.8 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
October 23 2005 18:12 ET by Robert Cline
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