User Guide

Exploring the Features
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Weather
From a clear blue sky to one filled with clouds,
wind, turbulence, rain, freezing rain, hail, snow,
lightning, and thunderstorms, Flight Simulator
2000 gives you as much control over the weather
conditions as you want. For the ultimate in
realism, you can download the latest real-world
weather provided by Jeppesen DataPlan, and
have those conditions automatically recreated in
Flight Simulator.
Feature
Real-World Weather
Basic Weather
Advanced Weather
Description
Download the current real-world weather conditions
and forecast winds aloft for thousands of weather
reporting stations. Flight Simulator automatically
connects your computer to a server on the MSN™
Gaming Zone, downloads the real-world conditions,
and then recreates them in Flight Simulator.
Set general levels for clouds, precipitation, visibility,
and the wind’s strength and direction. You can set
weather for the entire Flight Simulator 2000 world, or
for individual reporting stations as displayed on a
map.
Gain even more control over the weather you fly
through. You can define individual layers of weather,
each with its own:
· cloud type and coverage
· icing and precipitation
· wind speeds, gusts, turbulence, and shear strength
· temperature, dew point, and pressure
· visibility
Command
On the World menu, click Weather,
and then click the Real-World
Weather button.
On the World menu, click Weather.
On the World menu, click Weather,
then click the Advanced Weather
button.