- Steam App
- Radar Identified (4534350)
- Event type
- patch note
- Published
- 20 April 2026 - 18:20:02 UTC
- Source
- steam_community_announcements
Weather: Three weather modes. Pick per session at the sector picker: OFF, WIND ONLY (deterministic upper-air wind affects ground speed & drift), or FULL WEATHER (wind plus drifting precipitation cells, some of which are thunderstorms). Wind: Will impact the speed and turn radius of aircraft (Ground speed) Realistic cell behaviour. Cells build, mature and decay over their lifetime; thunderstorms render with darker green/grey and animated lightning glyphs (X). Cell drift speed is roughly half the upper-air wind. Thunderstorm Deviations: Pilot weather requests. When a controlled flight's route passes within 8 NM of a CB within ~5 minutes, the pilot transmits once: "Callsign, request weather deviation, cumulonimbus ahead". The strip flashes yellow for 3 s and gains an orange ⛈ WXbadge on the route line until the threat is gone. Penalty for storm penetration. Ignore the request and the aircra...