Issue: Historical weather (METAR/TAF/SIGMET) alignment with Scheduled Time of Departure

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Hi team,

First of all, thank you for creating and maintaining such an incredible tool for the flight simulation community.

I would like to report a recurring issue regarding historical weather data integration when dispatching a flight.

Whenever I generate a flight plan using a historical departure time (for instance, creating a flight plan on Sept 25th in the morning, but setting the Scheduled Time of Departure to Sept 24th at 16:45 UTC), the OFP generates with the real-time (IRL) METARs, TAFs, and SIGMETs corresponding to the moment the plan was generated, rather than fetching the historical weather data matching the scheduled departure date and time.

This behavior occurs consistently whenever planning flights with historical weather from the past 24 hours.

Would it be possible to adjust this so that the generated OFP fetches the historical METAR/TAF/SIGMET data corresponding to the departure date and time set in the flight options, rather than the current real-world generation time? This would greatly enhance realism for delayed or historical flights.

Thank you very much for your time and continued hard work!

Best regards,

Hélène

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Good luck! This has been asked for several times since MSFS24 has introduced 24h historical weather. No answer, no acknowledgment. I’ll eat my words if you get an answer…you’ll be my hero! :wink:

This is one of the original posts nearly TWO years ago.

So frustrating.