Author Topic: GSX 2 Does not know the correct seasons.  (Read 1538 times)

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GSX 2 Does not know the correct seasons.
« on: June 26, 2019, 05:00:53 am »
I often have to wait for De icers in the summer when the weather is clear. Why is this and how can it be corrected. Its really annoying to have to wait for de icers when they are not needed.  Thanks
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Re: GSX 2 Does not know the correct seasons.
« Reply #1 on: June 26, 2019, 10:51:32 am »
This has been discussed so many times already and no, it's not a GSX bug, it's a problem of Metar reports coming from Simconnect containing bogus/outdated/corrupted data, especially when using 3rd party weather engines.

Because the deicer is something you are only ASKED to us and you can obviously reject, we intentionally chose to err on the side of caution and, when the Metar data was corrupted, we always allowed deicing, because it's clearly best having the option of a deicer you can reject, rather than NOT having a deicer when you MIGHT need it.

Unfortunately, even if this was a precise design choice ( what to do when the Metar is unreadable ), in order to not have users assuming this is a GSX but ( I understand it might look like that ), this is how we'll deal with this problem with the next update:

http://www.fsdreamteam.com/forum/index.php/topic,19670.msg137432.html#msg137432