General Weather Items?

[kelvint23]

I saw a Meteoreological Lab that is for "produce weather items". What are they for exactly? Is it worth an investment (3500 coins not much though but I'm afraid it's like the Duty Free Shop totally unremovable)

 

[Barkmi4 (Mike)]

I saw a Meteoreological Lab that is for "produce weather items". What are they for exactly? Is it worth an investment (3500 coins not much though but I'm afraid it's like the Duty Free Shop totally unremovable)

You cannot sell the building once bought, so you are stuck with it.
You can either get the items by flying to certain destinations or by gifts from neighbours.
It is your call whether you buy or not, it really depends how much land you have available

 

[Madge59230]

I saw a Meteoreological Lab that is for "produce weather items". What are they for exactly? Is it worth an investment (3500 coins not much though but I'm afraid it's like the Duty Free Shop totally unremovable)

Buy it, build up a stock of weather items then you wont get stuck as you dont have a massive spotlight. To make it work you also need helicopter resource base. In my opinion worth having but dont spend any greenies on anything.

 

[LX Air - Teresa]

Buy it, build up a stock of weather items then you wont get stuck as you dont have a massive spotlight. To make it work you also need helicopter resource base. In my opinion worth having but dont spend any greenies on anything.

Completely agree with you. I bought it even in my smaller games, together with a resource base. You can quick-thinking produce any weather item you need in a relatively short time even if you don't build any inventory

 

[Husam]

I saw a Meteoreological Lab that is for "produce weather items". What are they for exactly? Is it worth an investment (3500 coins not much though but I'm afraid it's like the Duty Free Shop totally unremovable)

Yes agree with others Build it and start to save weather items from now.

 

[LX Air - Teresa]

Completely agree with you. I bought it even in my smaller games, together with a resource base. You can quick-thinking produce any weather item you need in a relatively short time even if you don't build any inventory

Hummm... Don't remember writing quick-thinking... I guess my phone has a will of its own

 

[Teboho]

'Tis true, buy both (meteorological lab and resource base) then build stock of 20 or 30 each weather item, back in the days one would get stuck having been caught without TLR or stabiliser these 2 were the rarest to gift.

 

[kelvint23]

still nobody answer me what are weather items exactly? 😔

 

[Teboho]

still nobody answer me what are weather items exactly? 😔

Tesla lightning rod
Stabiliser
Massive spotlight
Spiked tires
Ice detector
Nano coating

To add: these are items used by the planes to weather the weather conditions.

 

[Madge59230]

still nobody answer me what are weather items exactly? 😔

You know if you did a search, using the search button above for weather items, youd find threads about them!

 

[kelvint23]

Tesla lightning rod
Stabiliser
Massive spotlight
Spiked tires
Ice detector
Nano coating

To add: these are items used by the planes to weather the weather conditions.

You're awesome as always!

 

[kelvint23]

You know if you did a search, using the search button above for weather items, youd find threads about them!

I did. Not much help. But a deep Google search did mention about it with Helicopters.

 

[kelvint23]

anw I'm glad that I asked. If it only helps with Helicopters I'll pass. I'm having two Goldfinchs grounded due to breakdown and I'm not gonna spend 1.2M coins to upgrade Repair Base. It's ridiculous.

 

[crescent moon (RIP)]

anw I'm glad that I asked. If it only helps with Helicopters I'll pass. I'm having two Goldfinchs grounded due to breakdown and I'm not gonna spend 1.2M coins to upgrade Repair Base. It's ridiculous.

No - it has nothing to do with helicopters, other than the resource bases you build to fly the helis also creates items you need to use in the meteorological lab. That's where you can create items like Tesla, nano coating, etc., for airplane flights. At your level, I'm suprised you haven't had planes grounded due to weather - you would have to wait 24 hours for it to clear. When you have the weather items in your inventory, your plane can leave as scheduled. You can also received weather items as gifts (look at your gifting list), but having the lab is much more efficient.

 

[crescent moon (RIP)]

Here's a list of what helps with weather related conditions (it's about 2 years old, but I think it's all the same now):

Unfavorable conditions:

Thunderstorm — the flight requires 50% more Fuel and a Tesla Lightning Rod item;
Volcanic Eruption — the flight requires 50% more Fuel and a Nano Coating item;
Fog — the flight requires 50% more Fuel and a Massive Spotlight item;
Ice-Covered Runway — the flight requires 50% more Fuel and a Spiked Tire item;
Magnetic Storms — the flight requires 50% more Fuel and a Stabilizer.
Snowstorm — the flight requires 50% more Fuel and a Ice Detector item;

 

[zoutron]

still nobody answer me what are weather items exactly? 😔

So when you return a flight there is a chance of that flight getting a weather condition. Some of these weather conditions are positive, reduce flight time or increase pilot experience.
Some of them are negative. Those negative ones might increase fuel consumption or flight time. They will also require a "weather item". For example you might get a lightning storm as a negative whether condition. In order to fly this flight you will need a Tesla Lightning Rod. These items can be collected from certain flights. The meteorological lab allows you to get these items more reliably.

 

[Spork]

You know if you did a search, using the search button above for weather items, youd find threads about them!

Search will uncover many, many wonderful things and information about AC! And there are always @Captain WH Rollins guides.

 

[kelvint23]

No - it has nothing to do with helicopters, other than the resource bases you build to fly the helis also creates items you need to use in the meteorological lab. That's where you can create items like Tesla, nano coating, etc., for airplane flights. At your level, I'm suprised you haven't had planes grounded due to weather - you would have to wait 24 hours for it to clear. When you have the weather items in your inventory, your plane can leave as scheduled. You can also received weather items as gifts (look at your gifting list), but having the lab is much more efficient.

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It's much clearer now. Yes you're right I don't recall much incidents with these weather-groundings or perhaps most of the time I settled them with greenies. Anw I built one.